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How do you find the height and area of this triangle

How do you find the height and area of this triangle-example-1

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Because the triangle is an equilateral triangle, you know that all of the angles are equal to 60°. That means that you can use trigonometry to find the height, which would be sin(60) × 20 = 17.32.

Again, because it is an equilateral triangle, all sides are equal as well, meaning that the base is also 20cm. To find the area of the triangle, we must do (20 × 17.32)/2 = 173.2cm^2, which is the area.

I hope this helps!
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