Python program to find area of triangle (given base and height)

Hello everybody, welcome back! Here we learn how to find the area of a triangle when base and height of a triangle are given.

We calculate the area by multiplying base and height and dividing it with 2. Area = ( base * height ) / 2

We can also calculate area of triangle when all sides are given, using Heron’s formula. That can be found here.

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Task :

To find the area of a triangle when base and height of a triangle are given.

Approach :

• Read base and height of a triangle using input()orraw_input()
• Multiply both base and height and divide it with 2
• Area a = ( base * height ) / 2
• Print the result.

Program on Github

Program :

b = float(input('Enter base of a triangle: '))
h = float(input('Enter height of a triangle: '))

area = (b * h) / 2
print('The area of the triangle is %0.2f' % area)

Output :

Program on Github