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Revision as of 17:27, 2 November 2007
The area of any triangle can be calculated using the following equation:
Right triangles
For right triangles, the angle C, opposite the hypotenuse (c), is 90 degrees. The sine of 90 degrees is 1, so the equation reduces to: