Finding Area of Triangle on a Coordinate Plane

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Finding the area of a Triangle on a coordinate plane.

Imagine you have to drive to watch your favorite sports team play. Based on many factors like traffic, time, or road conditions, there are many different paths you could follow to arrive at your destination. In the same fashion, there are several paths one can take to calculate the area of a triangle based on the information given. The video of the day describes one method.

In this video you will learn.......

A method that can be used to find the area of a triangle when altitude is not given.

A method to find the area of a triangle without a right angle.

How to use the three vertices to find the area of a triangle.

The formula for finding the area using the coordinate plane method.

Watch an example problem using the coordinate plane method.

 

For more information please see Area of a triangle

Finding the area of a triangle

 The goal of this post is to give you several methods for finding the area of a triangle and a video that goes with each method. The method used to find the area is based on the information you are given.

 

If you know the Base and Altitude use      half base times height

 Video half base times height

 If you don’t know the altitude    use  Heron’s formula

 Video Heron's formula

 If you know Two sides and included angle     use Side Angle Side ( SAS)

 Video Side angle side

 

If you know X and Y vertices of the corners  use Box Method

 Video Box Method

 

 If you know Triangle is equilateral   use    Equilateral Triangle Area

 

 Video Equilateral Area Method

 If you know Triangle is isosceles     use    ½ base times height

 Video Half base * height

 

For even more information on finding the area of a triangle please see.Finding the area of a triangle