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Example Question #1 : Quadrilaterals
What is the area of a kite with diagonals of 5 and 7?
To find the area of a kite using diagonals you use the following equation
That diagonals ( and
)are the lines created by connecting the two sides opposite of each other.
Plug in the diagonals for and
to get
Then multiply and divide to get the area.
The answer is
Example Question #1 : Quadrilaterals
Find the area of the following kite:
The formula for the area of a kite is:
Where is the length of one diagonal and
is the length of the other diagonal
Plugging in our values, we get:
Example Question #2 : How To Find The Area Of A Kite
Find the area of the following kite:
The formula for the area of a kite is:
where is the length of one diagonal and
is the length of another diagonal.
Use the formulas for a triangle and a
triangle to find the lengths of the diagonals. The formula for a
triangle is
and the formula for a
triangle is
.
Our triangle is:
Our triangle is:
Plugging in our values, we get:
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