Problem 2020. Area of an Isoceles Triangle

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Ziad Abuissa on 4 Dec 2017

Great Problem

Kristóf Nagy on 6 Feb 2019

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Solution 2673695

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Umur Ulas Harman on 9 Jul 2020

function A = isocelesArea(x,y)
u=(2*x+y)/2;
A = sqrt(u*(u-x)^2*(u-y));
end

Solution 1162255

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Xusheng Huang on 13 Apr 2017

It takes me three times......

Solution 1027502

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Dallin Romney on 22 Oct 2016

Use Pythagoreans theorem

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