Finding sq feet when you have a triangle

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I have property that is trianglar in nature. How do you find the square feet in a land that is 263 feet one way 214 feet another and 315 feet on the other side? If anyone know how to do this please help me out. Thanks

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I just drew a scaled down version of that and the points dont reach!!What am i doing wrong?
Ive put angles in of 60 degrees.

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They don't reach because the angles aren't 60 degrees.

To find area:
First calculate the semiperimeter = S = (A + B + C)/2
Next use the following formula:

Area = SQRT( S*(S-A)*(S-B)*(S-C) )

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Dam the education system over here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Il leave it to you.

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material girl wrote:

I just drew a scaled down version of that and the points dont reach!!What am i doing wrong?
Ive put angles in of 60 degrees.

Cut out the sides, then arrange them in a triangle. Then measure the base and height, and use area=1/2*base*height.

Or use engineers solution, which is much more elegant.

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Thanks but that formula looks like pretty shapes and letters to me.

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I think you'll find Heron's Formula fundamentally easier than trying to find the height of a triangle that has unknown angles.

A, B & C are the length's of the legs.

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