The sides of an isosceles triangles are 10 cm, 10 cm and 12 cm. What is the area of the triangle?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
We know that,
Area of right angled triangle = \(\frac{1}{2}\) × Base × Height
The sides of isosceles triangle = 10, 10 and 12
So the base is 12.
Half of the base = 6 = base
Then height = 102 = 62 + h2
h = 8
So area = 2 × \(\frac{1}{2}\) × 6 × 8 = 48cm2