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Artyom0805 [142]
3 years ago
14

Find the length of an equilateral triangle having an area of 16

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Mathematics
2 answers:
Brrunno [24]3 years ago
6 0

Answer:

8 cm

Step-by-step explanation:

An equilateral triangle has 3 sides all being congruent to each other.

If I draw a line segment from one vertex to the opposite side at it's midpoint, I would have halved the triangle into two right triangles.

Let's each side of this equilateral triangle have measurement, a.

Let h be the height of the triangle:

(\frac{a}{2})^2+h^2=a^2

Let's solve for h in terms of a.

\frac{a^2}{4}+h^2=a^2

Subtract \frac{a^2}{4} on both sides:

h^2=a^2-\frac{a^2}{4}

h^2=\frac{4}{4}a^2-\frac{1}{4}a^2

h^2=\frac{4-1}{4}a^2

h^2=\frac{3}{4}a^2

Now square root both sides:

h=\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2}a

So the area of the triangle is \frac{1}{2} \cdot a \cdot \frac{\sqrt{3}}{2}a.

Let's simplify that a bit: \frac{\sqrt{3}}{4}a^2.

We are also given a numerical value for the area, 16\sqrt{3}.

So this will give us the equation \frac{\sqrt{3}}{4}a^2=16\sqrt{3} so that we can solve for a.

Multiply both sides by \frac{4}{\sqrt{3}}:

a^2=16 \sqrt{3} \cdot \frac{4}{\sqrt{3}}

Simplify the right hand side:

a^2=16 \cdot 4

a^2=64

Take the square root of both sides:

a=\sqrt{64}

a=8

Brums [2.3K]3 years ago
3 0

Answer:

Thus , The length of each side of the given equilateral triangle is 8

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