Area of a Triangle

1 · Jeremy Kun · June 24, 2011, 3:46 p.m.
Summary
Problem: What is the area of the triangle within the rectangle? Solution: In a moment of inspiration, we draw the following additional line: Now the answer is obvious. Once we split the rectangle into two smaller rectangles, the sides of the triangle become diagonals of their respective rectangles. The diagonals obviously split each of the two smaller rectangles into halves, where one half lies inside our original triangle. Clearly then, the interior of the whole triangle is half the area of its...