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Area formulas:
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Right Triangle: A bh
2
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SAS Case: A bcsin A
2
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SSS Case: A s(s a)(s b)(s c), where s
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a b c
1 x1 y1
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Given the Vertices of a Triangle: A = 1 x2 y2
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1 x3 y3
Examples
Draw the triangle and find the area for the triangles that follow.
Class work
1. Find the area of a triangular flower garden 4. The feds just launched two satellites and
with sides 11 ft, 19ft, and 18ft, to the nearest Ivan Advantage to observe the satellites. As
ten square feet. Ivan approaches the two satellites, he finds
that one of them is 8 kilometers from him
and the other is 11 kilometers, and the angle
between the two (with Ivan at the vertex) is
120. How far apart are the satellites?
5. Several orbits later as Ivan is about to re-enter, only Satellite No 1 is visible to Ivan, the other one being near
the opposite side of the Earth. He determines that Angle A measures 37, Angle B measures 113 and the
distance between him and Satellite No 1 is 4362 kilometers. How far apart are Ivan and Satellite 2?
Algebra III Academic
Trigonometry Applications and Graphing
Homework
1. What is the area, to the nearest 0.1 acre, of a triangular field that is 529 ft on one side and 849 ft on
another, if the angle between these sides measures 102.7?(1 acre =43,560 square feet)
2. A triangle has vertices: (5,7), (3,2), (8, -4) Find its area.
3. Solve this triangle. AFC : a 7, f 9, c 12. (You should use the Law of Cosines twice)
6. To the nearest square foot, what is the area of a triangular parcel of land, if two adjacent sides measure
184 ft and 246 ft and the angle between them measures 76?
7. A surveyor measures the three sides of a triangular field and gets 114, 165, and 257 meters. What is the
measure of the largest angle of the triangle? What is the area of the field?