Asked by Silva

The area of a triangle is 4 times the area of the smaller triangle formed by joining the nidpoints of two sides

True or false
Answered by Silva
I meant Midpoints!
Answered by Scott
the line joining the midpoints is half the length of the triangle base

the two triangles are similar, with the sides of the smaller triangle being half the size of the larger

the areas are related by the square of the side relation