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A triangular prism has a height of 5m, a length of 204cm, and a height of 1293 mm. Find its volume.
The answer is 1 x 10^something i can't really see what it is. Please explain how to do this.

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In the triangular prism calculator you can easily find out the volume of that solid. A general formula is volume = length * base_area; the one parameter you always need to have given is the prism length, and there are four ways to calculate the base - triangle area. Our triangular prism calculator has all of them implemented, isn't it awesome?

The specific formulas look as follows:

Length * Triangular base area given triangle base and height

It's this well-known formula mentioned before:

volume = length * 0.5 * b * h

Length * Triangular base area given three sides (SSS)

If you know the lengths of all sides, use the Heron's formula to find the area of triangular base:

volume = length * 0.25 * √( (a + b + c) * (-a + b + c) * (a - b + c) * (a + b - c) )

Length * Triangular base area given two sides and the angle between them (SAS)

You can calculate area of a triangle easily from trigonometry:

volume = length * 0.5 * a * b * sin(γ)

Length * Triangular base area given two angles and a side between them (ASA)

You can calculate that using trigonometry:

volume = = length * a² * sin(β) * sin(γ) / (2 * sin(β + γ))

Explanation:

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