Java Program to Find Area of Triangle

In this tutorial, we will develop a Java program to find the area of a triangle. Generally, we find the area of a triangle having three sides, or the area of the right-angle triangle.

Program to find the area of the right-angle triangle in Java

Area of Right angle triangle or Triangle whose base and height is known, their area is given by,

Area=(1/2) * base * height

Procedure to develop a program to find the area of a right-angle triangle:-

1) Define class and the main method
2) Declare variables for taking inputs:- height and length
3) Import Scanner class of util package to read inputs
4) Read inputs from end-user and store them in the declared variables
5) Calculate the area of the right angle triangle using the formula, and store it in a variable
6) Display the result
7) Close the Scanner class object

import java.util.Scanner;

public class RightAngleTraingle {

   public static void main(String[] args) {

       // declare variables
       double height = 0.0;
       double base = 0.0;
       double area = 0.0;

       // create Scanner class object
       Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);

       // read input
       System.out.print("Enter height of the triangle:: ");
       height = scan.nextDouble();
       System.out.print("Enter base of the triangle:: ");
       base = scan.nextDouble();

       // calculate area
       area = (0.5) * (base * height);

       // display result
       System.out.println("Area = "+ area);

       // close Scanner class object
       scan.close();

    }
 }

Output:-

Enter height of the triangle:: 25.5
Enter base of the triangle:: 20
Area = 255.0

In this program, we had written logic to find the area of the right-angle triangle inside the main method, but we should not do that. It was given only for understanding purposes. We should write the logic inside a method and call them from the main method. In the below program we had written that logic separately in the user-defined method.

Java program to find the area of a triangle given three sides

Triangle having three sides their area is given by Heron’s Formula for the area of a triangle. If a, b and c are sides of triangles, and s is semi-perimeter then from Heron’s Formula,

s = (a+b+c) / 2

and,

area = √(s*(s-a)*(s-b)*(s-c))

To find the square root value we can take the support of sqrt() method of Math class. The sqrt() method of Math class is a static method so we can call it without creating the object of Math class.

import java.util.Scanner;

public class RightAngleTraingle {

   public static double findTriangleArea(double a, double b, double c){
       double s = 0.0;
       double area = 0.0;
       s = (a+b+c) / 2;
       area = Math.sqrt( s* (s-a) * (s-b) * (s-c) );
       return area;
   }

   public static void main(String[] args) {

       // declare variables
       double a = 0.0, b = 0.0, c = 0.0;
       double area = 0.0;

       // create Scanner class object
       Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);

       // read input
       System.out.print("Enter three sides of the triangle:: ");
       a = scan.nextDouble();
       b = scan.nextDouble();
       c = scan.nextDouble();

       // call method to calculate area
       area = findTriangleArea(a, b, c);       

       // display result
       System.out.println("Area = "+ area);

       // close Scanner class object
       scan.close();

   }
 }

Output for the different test-cases:-

Enter three sides of the triangle:: 4.5 8.9 12
Area = 16.643689494820542

Enter three sides of the triangle:: 3 4 5
Area = 6.0

Here we developed a java program to find the area of a triangle using methods. We define findTriangleArea(-,-,-) which takes three double type arguments and also returns double type value.

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