Question

. Find the area of a triangle whose sides are
15 cm, 17 cm and 8 cm. What would be the
height of a triangle if 8 cm is considered as
base? Also can you guess the type of a triangle?​

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

It should strike to you that (15,17,8) is a Pythagorean triplet, which means it means a right angled triangle.

So the area is (1/2)bh = (1/2)×15×8 =60 cm²

If base is considered as 8 then height will be 15 because the longest side that is 17 is the hypotenuse.

Ofcourse it's a right angled triangle. You can prove it by showing that the sum of square of its two sides 15&8 is equal to the square of 17.