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Criterion B Area of Triangle

The document describes a series of figures showing 3 congruent circles touching to form a triangle. It provides tables showing the relationship between the radius of the circles, the side length of the triangles, and their heights and areas. The questions ask the reader to fill in missing values in the tables, describe patterns, write general rules, and test and justify the rules relating the radius, sides, heights and areas of the triangles.

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Criterion B Area of Triangle

The document describes a series of figures showing 3 congruent circles touching to form a triangle. It provides tables showing the relationship between the radius of the circles, the side length of the triangles, and their heights and areas. The questions ask the reader to fill in missing values in the tables, describe patterns, write general rules, and test and justify the rules relating the radius, sides, heights and areas of the triangles.

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In the given figure you will observe 3 congruent circles are touching each other

and triangle is formed by joining their centres.

In the first figure, radius of the circle is 1 unit, in the second radius is 2 units
and in the third figure, the radius of the circle is 3 units.
The red line segment shows the perpendicular from the top vertex to the base of
the triangle.
a) Show that the height of the first triangle is √3 units.
The table below is given with the radius of the circle, length of the side and the
height of the triangle in each stage.
Height of the Triangle
Radius (r) Side of the Triangle (s)
(h)
1 2 √3
2 4 2√3
3 6 3√3
4 8 4√3
5
6
7

b) Fill the missing values in the above table using the pattern you have
observed.
c) Describe one pattern of heights you have observed.
d) Write the general rule for the height (h) in terms of side of the triangle (s).
e) Test the general rule obtained in part (d).
The table below shows the height and area of triangles formed shown in the
earlier figures.
Side of the triangle Area of the triangle.
2 √3
4 4√3
6 9√3
8 16√3
10 25√3

f) Fill the missing values in the above table using the pattern you have
observed.
g) Describe one pattern you observe in the area of the triangles.
h) Write the general rule for finding the area of a triangle.
i) Test your general rule for the area of the triangle.
j) Verify your general rule for the area of the triangle.
k) Justify the general rule for the area of the triangle you found.
l) Find the area of the triangle thus formed when the radius of the circle is
25 cm using your general rule.

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