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Question from imraan, a student:

how to find the area of isosceles triangle by knowing only its sides

imraan,

Suppose the triangle is ABC with AB and AC the congruent sides. Let D be the midpoint of BC.

triangle

What do you know about triangles ABD and ADC?

Penny

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