Largest Area of a triangle
hi,
i was wondering if anyone could give me a hand with this program. i am writing a program to find the largest possible area of a triange. i have this basic information so far. any help would be greatly appreciated!
thanks
To compute the area of a triangle use the formula:
area = radical (s(s-a)(s-b)(s-c))
s - (a+b+c)/2
where and a, b, and c are the three sides of the triangle.
To calculate the length of the sides you can use the distance formula:
radical (x1-x2)^2+(y1+y2)^2
x1,x2 is one point
y1,y2 is the second point
where are the coordinates of one point and is the coodinates of the second point.
DATA
1. 0,0
2. 5,4
3. -7, -4
4. -2, 6
5. 4, -3
6. 1, 10
7. 0, -6