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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). Some triangles have two names that describe both their angles and sides, like a right isosceles triangle which has one 90 degree angle and two equal sides. The perimeter of a triangle is the sum of its three sides. The area of a triangle is one half of the base

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3 Triangles

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). Some triangles have two names that describe both their angles and sides, like a right isosceles triangle which has one 90 degree angle and two equal sides. The perimeter of a triangle is the sum of its three sides. The area of a triangle is one half of the base

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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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