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Find the area of the triangle below.Carry your intermediate computations to at least four decimal places. Round your answer to the nearest tenth.15 yd13 ydIl yd?16 yd

Find the area of the triangle below.Carry your intermediate computations to at least-example-1

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First we need to find the semi-permiter


s=(a+b+c)/(2)

where a,b,c are the sides of the triangle

a=15

b=16

c=13


s=(15+16+13)/(2)=22

Then we will use the Heron's formula in order to find the area of the triangle


A=\sqrt[]{s(s-a)(s-b)(s-c)}

then we substitute the values


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