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START HERE: The basic formula
for the area of a triangle
(when you know the height) is:
Area = ½ ________x height
Area = ½ bh
height
base
What is the limitation here?
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C perpendicular height on any
b a
__ B sin A = _________
____
__
Notice how the___sides
_ A
opposite the angles use the
same letter, just lower case.
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As height = CD = b Sin A
We can now find a general
formula for the area of a
triangle.
Area = ½ base x height
Area = ½ x AB x CD
Area = ½ x c x ________
Area = ____________
(2) (9)
A problem with the basic
formula is that we don’t 𝑂𝑝𝑝
______θ = 𝐻𝑦𝑝
always know the __________.
We can resolve this by
𝐴𝑑𝑗
establishing an expression for ______θ = 𝐻𝑦𝑝
the __________using
trigonometry.
𝑂𝑝𝑝
The trigonometry ratios that ______θ = 𝐴𝑑𝑗
apply to right angled triangles
are:
It is conventional to label
triangles like this:
(1) (4)
You can draw in the You can find an expression for
the perpendicular height:
triangle:
C 𝑂𝑝𝑝
sin θ = 𝐻𝑦𝑝
b a
This can be rearranged to give:
B
D
c CD = b sin A
This now gives us two
(So height = CD = b sin A )
_________ angled triangles.
(.) (3)
If we use different sides as the Back to the Original Problem:
base we get three different
forms: Find the area of this triangle.
Give your answer to 2sf.:
Area = _________
C
Area = ½ ab sin C
7 cm
Area = ½ ac sin B
37°
A B
11cm