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How to calculate the area of a 3 sided triangle

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A method for calculating the area of a triangle when you know the lengths of all three sides.

Let a,b,c be the lengths of the sides of a triangle. The area is given by:

where p is half the perimeter, or


How to calculate the area of a 3 sided triangle-example-1
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