SOLUTION: What is the greatest possible area of a triangle with one side length of 8 and another side length of 10?
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Question 259698: What is the greatest possible area of a triangle with one side length of 8 and another side length of 10?
Answer by drk(1908) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Using the triangle inequality theorem, we get the third side
2 < x < 18.
When x = 13, we get n area of
39.98 using Heron's formula
of sqrt(S*(S-a)(S-b)(S-c))
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