* Area Formulas *
Area of a Rectangle:
Product of the base and height
Area of a triangle: one half the
product of the base and height
Area of a parallelogram:
is the product of a base
and its corresponding height.
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Area of a Trapezoid: is half
the product of the height and
the sum of the bases.
Area of a Rhombus: is one
half the product of the lengths
of its diagonals
Area of a kite: is one half
the product of the lengths of
its diagonals
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Examples of Area: Find the Area of each polygon.
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Examples of Area: Find the Area of each polygon.
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Solving for x
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http://www.khanacademy.org/math/geometry/basic-geometry/v/perimeter-and-area-of-a-nonstandard-polygon
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