Question

What is the volume of the following triangular prism?

Answer 1

Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:

In order to calculate the volume of a triangular prism you need 2 things:

The triangles area and the prism's height.

Any prism's volume can be calculated by multiplying its base area with its height.

The Area of a triangle can be calculated in different ways.

The most used and "normal" way is:

(width * height) / 2

Another way is by using herons formula, which looks like this:

a, b, c = different sides of the triangle (length)

s = (a + b + c) / 2

a = $\sqrt{s (s-a)(s-b)(s-c)}$

When you have the prism's base area ($b_{a}$) you just have to multiply:

$b_{a}*h=V$

(V = volume)

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