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Area and Length, Page 4

Deriving the Formulas for the Area of a Triangle Pencil and Paper

What if you are given one side and two angles (AAS)?
Use the Law of Sines and solve for b.

b/sinB = c/sinC; b = c sinB/sinC

Substitute the value found for b into K = 1/2 bc sinA to derive the following equation:

K = 1/2 a^2 (sinA sinB/sinC)

Again, depending on where you draw your altitude, or height, you can derive two similar equations.