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In Exercises 21-32, use a determinant and the given vertices of a triangle to find the area of the triangle.
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We do this by writing down the coordinates of the vertices of the triangle in a 3x3 matrix. The first two columns of this matrix are the x and y coordinates of the vertices, and the third column is filled with ones. Show more…
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