Question 234640: Triangle has sides of 18 cm, 29 cm, and 47 cm. What is the area to the nearest cm square?
Answer by solver91311(24713)   (Show Source):
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Ordinarily you would use Heron's Formula to find the area of a triangle with sides measuring  ,  , and  .
(s\ -\ b)(s\ -\ c)})
where  is the perimeter divided by 2, that is:
Step 1: Substitute , , and to calculate
Step 2: Substitute , , , and to calculate the area.
However, the first statement in your problem is false. That is to say it is not true that a triangle has sides 18, 29, and 47. That is because a three-sided figure is not a triangle unless the sum of the measures of the two short sides is GREATER than the measure of the longest side. Not having a triangle, the question "What is the area..." is absurd.
John
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