Triangle Area Calculation: Finding Area with Height 7 and Base 8.5

Question

Calculate the area of the triangle below, if possible.

00:00 If possible, calculate the area of the triangle

00:03 The drawn line is not the height, therefore the area cannot be calculated

00:07 And this is the solution to the question

The formula to calculate the area of a triangle is:

(side * height corresponding to the side) / 2

Note that in the triangle provided to us, we have the length of the side but not the height.

That is, we do not have enough data to perform the calculation.

Cannot be calculated