Triangle - Examples, Exercises and Solutions

Angle A is equal to 30°.
Angle B is equal to 60°.
Angle C is equal to 90°.

Can these angles form a triangle?

We add the three angles to see if they equal 180 degrees:

$30+60+90=180$
The sum of the angles equals 180, so they can form a triangle.

Yes

Angle A equals 90°.
Angle B equals 115°.
Angle C equals 35°.

Can these angles form a triangle?

We add the three angles to see if they are equal to 180 degrees:

$90+115+35=240$
The sum of the given angles is not equal to 180, so they cannot form a triangle.

No.

Angle A equals 56°.
Angle B equals 89°.
Angle C equals 17°.

Can these angles make a triangle?

We add the three angles to see if they are equal to 180 degrees:

$56+89+17=162$

The sum of the given angles is not equal to 180, so they cannot form a triangle.

No.

Calculate the area of the following triangle:

The formula for calculating the area of a triangle is:

(the side * the height from the side down to the base) /2

That is:

$\frac{BC\times AE}{2}$

Now we replace the existing data:

$\frac{4\times5}{2}=\frac{20}{2}=10$

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What is the area of the given triangle?

This question is a bit confusing. We need start by identifying which parts of the data are relevant to us.

Remember the formula for the area of a triangle:

The height is a straight line that comes out of an angle and forms a right angle with the opposite side.

In the drawing we have a height of 6.

It goes down to the opposite side whose length is 5.

And therefore, these are the data points that we will use.

We replace in the formula:

$\frac{6\times5}{2}=\frac{30}{2}=15$

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Calculate the area of the triangle ABC using the data in the figure.

First, let's remember the formula for the area of a triangle:

(the side * the height that descends to the side) /2

In the question, we have three pieces of data, but one of them is redundant!

We only have one height, the line that forms a 90-degree angle - AD,

The side to which the height descends is CB,

Therefore, we can use them in our calculation:

$\frac{CB\times AD}{2}$

$\frac{8\times9}{2}=\frac{72}{2}=36$

36 cm²

Given the triangle:

What is its perimeter?

The perimeter of a triangle is equal to the sum of all its sides together:

$11+7+13=11+20=31$

31

Look at the triangle below:

What is the perimeter of the triangle?

The perimeter of the triangle is equal to the sum of all sides together, therefore:

$6+8+10=14+10=24$

24

Calculate the area of the right triangle below:

As we see that AB is perpendicular to BC and forms a 90-degree angle

It can be argued that AB is the height of the triangle.

Then we can calculate the area as follows:

$\frac{AB\times BC}{2}=\frac{8\times6}{2}=\frac{48}{2}=24$

24 cm²

Calculate the area of the triangle below, if possible.

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

Look at the isosceles triangle below:

What is its perimeter?

Since we are referring to an isosceles triangle, the two legs are equal to each other.

In the drawing, they give us the base which is equal to 4 and one side is equal to 6, therefore the other side is also equal to 6.

The perimeter of the triangle is equal to the sum of the sides and therefore:

$6+6+4=12+4=16$

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Calculate X using the data in the figure below.

The formula to calculate the area of a triangle is:

(side * height descending from the side) /2

We place the data we have into the formula to find X:

$20=\frac{AB\times AC}{2}$

$20=\frac{x\times5}{2}$

Multiply by 2 to get rid of the fraction:

$5x=40$

Divide both sections by 5:

$\frac{5x}{5}=\frac{40}{5}$

$x=8$

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The triangle ABC is given below.
AC = 10 cm

AD = 3 cm

BC = 11.6 cm
What is the area of the triangle?

The triangle we are looking at is the large triangle - ABC

The triangle is formed by three sides AB, BC, and CA.

Now let's remember what we need for the calculation of a triangular area:

(side x the height that descends from the side)/2

Therefore, the first thing we must find is a suitable height and side.

We are given the side AC, but there is no descending height, so it is not useful to us.

The side AB is not given,

And so we are left with the side BC, which is given.

From the side BC descends the height AD (the two form a 90-degree angle).

It can be argued that BC is also a height, but if we delve deeper it seems that CD can be a height in the triangle ADC,

and BD is a height in the triangle ADB (both are the sides of a right triangle, therefore they are the height and the side).

As we do not know if the triangle is isosceles or not, it is also not possible to know if CD=DB, or what their ratio is, and this theory fails.

Let's remember again the formula for triangular area and replace the data we have in the formula:

(side* the height that descends from the side)/2

Now we replace the existing data in this formula:

$\frac{CB\times AD}{2}$

$\frac{11.6\times3}{2}$

$\frac{34.8}{2}=17.4$

17.4

Given the isosceles triangle,

What is its perimeter?

Since the triangle is isosceles, that means its two legs are equal to each other.

Therefore, the base is 7 and the other two sides are 12.

The perimeter of a triangle is equal to the sum of all sides together:

$12+12+7=24+7=31$

31

Given the triangle:

What is its perimeter?

The perimeter of a triangle is equal to the sum of all its sides together:

$11+7+13=11+20=31$

31