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    A triangle has three sides and three angles. The three angles always add up to 180 degrees. Triangles can be categorized based on equal sides as equilateral (three equal sides), isosceles (two equal sides), or scalene (no equal sides). They can also be categorized based on angle measures as acute (all angles less than 90 degrees), right (one 90 degree angle), or obtuse (one angle greater than 90 degrees). The perimeter of a triangle is the sum of its three sides. The area of a triangle is calculated by taking half the product of the base and height.

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    A triangle has three sides and three angles. The three angles always add up to 180 degrees. Triangles can be categorized based on equal sides as equilateral (three equal sides), isosceles (two equal sides), or scalene (no equal sides). They can also be categorized based on angle measures as acute (all angles less than 90 degrees), right (one 90 degree angle), or obtuse (one angle greater than 90 degrees). The perimeter of a triangle is the sum of its three sides. The area of a triangle is calculated by taking half the product of the base and height.

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    A triangle has three sides and three angles. The three angles always add up to 180 degrees. Triangles can be categorized based on equal sides as equilateral (three equal sides), isosceles (two equal sides), or scalene (no equal sides). They can also be categorized based on angle measures as acute (all angles less than 90 degrees), right (one 90 degree angle), or obtuse (one angle greater than 90 degrees). The perimeter of a triangle is the sum of its three sides. The area of a triangle is calculated by taking half the product of the base and height.

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    A triangle has three sides and three angles. The three angles always add up to 180 degrees. Triangles can be categorized based on equal sides as equilateral (three equal sides), isosceles (two equal sides), or scalene (no equal sides). They can also be categorized based on angle measures as acute (all angles less than 90 degrees), right (one 90 degree angle), or obtuse (one angle greater than 90 degrees). The perimeter of a triangle is the sum of its three sides. The area of a triangle is calculated by taking half the product of the base and height.

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    Triangles

    A triangle has three sides and three angles

    The three angles always add to 180

    Equilateral, Isosceles and Scalene


    There are three special names given to triangles that tell how many sides (or angles) are
    equal.
    There can be 3, 2 or no equal sides/angles:

    Equilateral Triangle
    Three equal sides
    Three equal angles, always 60

    Isosceles Triangle
    Two equal sides
    Two equal angles

    Scalene Triangle
    No equal sides
    No equal angles

    What Type of Angle?


    Triangles can also have names that tell you what type of angle is inside:

    Acute Triangle
    All angles are less than 90

    Right Triangle
    Has a right angle (90)

    Obtuse Triangle
    Has an angle more than 90

    Combining the Names


    Sometimes a triangle will have two names, for example:

    Right Isosceles Triangle


    Has a right angle (90), and also two equal angles
    Can you guess what the equal angles are?

    Perimeter
    The perimeter is the distance around the edge of the triangle: just add up the three sides:

    Area

    The area is half of the base times height.

    "b" is the distance along the base

    "h" is the height (measured at right angles to the base)

    Area = b h
    The formula works for all triangles.
    Note: a simpler way of writing the formula is

    bh/2

    Example: What is the area of this triangle?

    (Note: 12 is the height, not the length of the left-hand side)

    Height = h = 12
    Base = b = 20

    Area = b h = 20 12 = 120
    The base can be any side, Just be sure the "height" is measured at right angles to the
    "base":
    (Note: You can also calculate the area from the lengths of all three sides using Heron's
    Formula.)

    Why is the Area "Half of bh"?


    Imagine you "doubled" the triangle (flip it around one of the upper edges) to make a squarelike shape (a parallelogram) which can be changed to a simple rectangle.
    THEN the whole area is bh, which is for both triangles, so just one is bh, like this:

    By slicing the new triangle and moving the sliced part to the other side
    you get a simple rectangle, whose area is bh.

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