Friday 16 August 2013

Divide a triangle into n triangles

Question: How to divide a triangle into n equal area triangles ?
Answer:
For any triangle its area can be calculated using the formula base * height/2. So we can divide a triangle into n triangles of equal area by simply dividing the base into n equal parts.
Explanations :
For example to divide the triangle in the image below into 4 equal triangles, we can simply divide its base of 8cms to 4 equal parts of 2cms each and form the 4 triangles of equal area.

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