Tagged: triangle

Select your language EnglishSpanish A triangle is a polygon with three sides (a, b, and c). All three sides meet two by two at three points, called vertices (A, B, and C). In a...

Select your language EnglishSpanish The perimeter of a triangle is the sum of its three sides. The formula for the perimeter of a triangle depends on the type of triangle. But there is a...

Select your language EnglishSpanish Finding the area of a triangle is depending on the type of triangle or which sides and angles we know. The most common formula for finding the area of a...

Select your language EnglishSpanish The area of any triangle can be calculated by knowing one side and the height (or altitude), associated with that side. This side serves as the base. In fact the...

Select your language EnglishSpanish The basic elements of a triangle are: Vertices: points where two sides meet. It has 3 vertices (A, B, and C). Sides: line segments that join two consecutive vertices of...

Select your language EnglishSpanish In Euclidean geometry, two objects are similar if they are the same shape, regardless of their size. Two triangles are similar if, and only if, their angles are congruent (equal)...

Select your language EnglishSpanish In any non-equilateral triangle the orthocenter (H), the centroid (G) and the circumcenter (O) are aligned. The line that contains these three points is called the Euler line. In an...

Select your language EnglishSpanish There are several theorems that are attributed to Thales of Miletus, we are going to focus especially on two of them: Thales’ Theorem Thales’ Theorem is a special case of...

Select your language EnglishSpanish Triangles can be classified by their sides or by their angles. According to these, we can assert that there are basically six different types of triangles: equilateral triangle, isosceles triangle,...

Select your language EnglishSpanish Heron’s Formula gives the area of a triangle when we know all three sides. The area is calculated from the semiperimeter of the triangle, s and the length of the...