Monday, December 15, 2014

Triangle Puzzler


To start the week, a quick and simple (...or, not so simple) problem:

You have a triangle. In some particular order, the three sides and height of the triangle are four consecutive integers. What is the area of the triangle?
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ANSWER:  84  (a 13-14-15 triangle with height 12)

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