Area of Triangles

You can think of any triangle as half of a parallelogram! This is why its area is half that of the parallelogram: half of height times base. Watch this lecture series and complete the interactive exercises to practice using the triangle area formula.

Practice

Area of triangles - Answers

1. The triangle has an area of 16 units $^{2}$ .

2. The triangle has an area of 63 units $^{2}$ .

3. The triangle has an area of 20 units ${ }^{2}$ .

4. The triangle has an area of 96 units $^{2}$ .

5. The triangle has an area of 6 units ${ }^{2}$ .

6. The triangle has an area of 135 units $^{2}$ .

7. The triangle has an area of 5 units $^{2}$ .