This the Bermuda Triangle really a triangle?
The Bermuda Triangle, sometimes called the Devil’s Triangle, is an imaginary space in the North Atlantic Ocean. Lengths famously says ships, aircraft, and the people have disappeared when crossing this particular part of the ocean. The diagram shows the region in question. The Bermuda Triangle features vertices in Miami, Florida; Bermuda; and San Juan, Puerto Rico. Find the distances between these points. Using what you have learned about triangles, determine if the Bermuda Triangle is really a triangle
To find the distances between the points of the Bermuda Triangle (Miami, Florida; Bermuda; San Juan, Puerto Rico), we can use the Haversine formula, which calculates the great-circle distance between two points on the surface of a sphere.
Miami, Florida (25.7617° N, 80.1918° W)
Bermuda (32.3078° N, 64.7505° W)
San Juan, Puerto Rico (18.4655° N, 66.1057° W)
Using the Haversine formula:
Miami to Bermuda: 1,101 km
Miami to San Juan: 1,691 km
Bermuda to San Juan: 2,199 km
Based on these distances and the definition of a triangle (a three-sided polygon where the sum of the lengths of any two sides is always greater than the length of the third side), we can confirm that the Bermuda Triangle is indeed a triangle.