Given: the medians divide a triangle into 6 smaller triangles.
Prove: The area of all the triangles are the same
Median of a triangle divides the triangle into two triangles with equal area.
For consider
and median
. We got two triangles here
and
. Now both the triangles have bases namely
and
respectively and they're of equal length. Also height of both the
triangles is equal.
.
Now,
are medians of triangles
respectively.
So
Also
has medians
.
Hence, the area of all the 6 triangles is the same.
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