Find the area of a triangle whose two sides are 12 inches and 14 inches long, and has a perimeter of 34 inches. A. 23.24 in² B. 47.91 in² C. 24.74 in² D. 79.84 in²

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Answer:

C

Step-by-step explanation:

That makes the third side 8 inches. Bc 34 -12 -14 = 8.

There's a formula that gives you the area of a triangle with all three sides.

It's kinda long so I won't write it out but it uses the semi-perimeter and it's called heron's formula if you want to search it up.

I just plugged the values into Heron's formula calculator.

The answer is around 47.906158268014, so C.

Area of the triangle is  [tex]47.91 \ in^{2}[/tex].

What is area of triangle?

The area of a triangle is defined as the total space occupied by the three sides of a triangle in a 2-dimensional plane.

Given

Perimeter  = 34

Two sides of the triangle = 12, 14

Third side of the triangle  = Perimeter - 12 - 14

= 34 - 12 - 14

= 8 inches

According to the figure, using Pythagoras theorem

[tex]h^{2}=8^{2} -x^{2}[/tex]

[tex]h^{2}=12^{2} - (14-x)^{2}[/tex]

[tex]8^{2} -x^{2} =12^{2} -(14-x)^{2}[/tex]

[tex]64-x^{2} =144-196+28x-x^{2}[/tex]

[tex]28x=116[/tex]

[tex]x=4.14[/tex]

So, [tex]h^{2} =8^{2} -4.14^{2}[/tex]

[tex]h^{2} =64-17.15[/tex]

[tex]h=6.844[/tex]

So, the area of the triangle  = [tex]\frac{1}{2} \times 14 \times 6.844[/tex]

= [tex]47.91 \ in^{2}[/tex]

Area of the triangle is  [tex]47.91 \ in^{2}[/tex].

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