Table of Contents
- Verification of the Formula of Area of a Triangle
- What’s Next?
In our previous segment of Class 6 Maths, we learnt about the area of the triangle. In this segment, we will learn how we obtained the formula to find the area of the triangle.
How is the formula to find the area of a triangle obtained?
Consider a triangle as shown below.
If the base and the corresponding height of this triangle are b and h respectively, then the area of this triangle is 1 × ? × ℎ. Let us verify this using the following steps.
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Step 1: Consider a copy of the same triangle along with the original one.
Since, both the triangles are congruent, they will have the same area.
Step 2: The second triangle is flipped horizontally and then vertically, it will be as shown below.
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