SOLUTION: The lengths of the sides of a triangle are 9, 15, and 18. What are the lengths of the sides of a similar triangle with area 1/9 that of the given triangle?

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Question 251663: The lengths of the sides of a triangle are 9, 15, and 18. What are the lengths of the sides of a similar triangle with area 1/9 that of the given triangle?
Answer by edjones(8007)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
1, 15/9, 2 are the sides of the similar triangle.
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Ed
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Solved by pluggable solver: Find the area of triangle if 3 sides are given
In any triangle, If the side lengths are known then the area of the triangle can be
calculated by the Heron's FormulaHeron's Formula.


Where is the semi perimeter, or half of the triangle's perimeter.

equivalent Heron's Formula is:


In our case the desired value is:



So, the answer is that the Area of the Triangle with given parameter is 0.831479421139079 .


For more on this topic, refer to Triangle
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