Applications of Determinants, Area of the Triangle
Applications of Determinants, Area of the Triangle
Applications of Determinants, Area of the Triangle
Areas:
Areas:
Triangle:
Consider the triangle with vertices
and .
Formula for the area of the triangle is
.
Example 2:
Compute the area of the triangle with vertices and .
Solution:
The area is
.
Parallelogram:
Suppose we have a parallelogram with vertices
, and ,
Then, the area of the parallelogram is