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Hi, i urgently need help with this subject, i need to complete it for a course i am wanting to enrol in, but maths wasn't for me, now i am stuck. i need help with this question,

Find the area of the triangle with the lengths 2.87 m, 3.69 m and 4.58 m
565 mm, 823 mm and 1.08 m

i have no idea how to do this,

can someone please help me.

Originally Posted by seran

Hi, i urgently need help with this subject, i need to complete it for a course i am wanting to enrol in, but maths wasn't for me, now i am stuck. i need help with this question,

Find the area of the triangle with the lengths 2.87 m, 3.69 m and 4.58 m
565 mm, 823 mm and 1.08 m

i have no idea how to do this,

can someone please help me.

Use Heron's Formula.

If are the sides of the triangle, let be the semi-perimeter. I.e. .

Then the Area is

.

sorry ur going to think im pretty stupid, i did say im hopless in mtahs, but where did u get the 2 and s from???

you've lost me sorry

Follow the instructions I gave you.

Call the three sides of your triangle .

Then work out the semiperimeter:

.


Then work out the Area

.

Hello, seran!

If you can't handle Heron's Formula,
. . then you must know some Trigonometry.

Find the area of the triangle with the lengths 2.87 m, 3.69 m and 4.58 m

565 mm, 823 mm and 1.08 m . ← What are these?

We have a triangle:

Code:

            C
            o
           *  *
       b  *     *  a
         *        *
        *           *
       *              *
    A *  *  *  *  *  *  * B
               c

We are given: .


We can find angle with: .

Then the area is: .


If all this is meaningless to you,
and you're really "hopless in math",
. . . . just skip the problem.

Hi seran,

If you need this subject for a course you want to enroll in,
why is this topic important for the course ?

Will you have difficulty on the course without it ?
Try the question, you might be surprised how easy it can get.

As Soroban showed,

If you have the 3 sides of a triangle,
you can find any angle using the Law of Cosines, or Cosine Rule

Then,
you can find the area of a triangle if you have all 3 dimensions at any of the 3 corners,
using the triangle area formula, for a triangle for which you are not given the perpendicular height and base.

I want to study architecture and one of the pre-req is that i have to have completed maths in year 12, which i never did, so the course i will be doing am assuming won't involve algebra etc, just measure etc. i haven't done maths since 1993, thats 17 years. so really nothing is sinking in and is getting really depresed cause i feel so stupid. thanks all for your helps.

Hi, thank you all, ooo i feel stupid, no i don't know trig, like i mentioned i did maths about 17 years ago, and really never paid attention to the teacher because maths was never my best friend. so i didnt take it up in year 12 either. Now i want to study from home architecture and one of the pre-req is that i have to have completed maths in year 12. Or to do this subject, i think i need a private tutor.

Originally Posted by seran

I want to study architecture and one of the pre-req is that i have to have completed maths in year 12, which i never did, so the course i will be doing am assuming won't involve algebra etc, just measure etc. i haven't done maths since 1993, thats 17 years. so really nothing is sinking in and is getting really depresed cause i feel so stupid. thanks all for your helps.

You're in for a suprise! You're gonna need a lot of math there, buddy!

Check it out.

Architecture Degree Program Requirements

ooo, know i feel even worse, gota get a tutor, thnax for that,