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The
area of a rectangle: |
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To find the area of a
rectangle, just multiply the length times the width:
Area
= L
x w |
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The area
of a rhombus: |
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To find the area of a rhombus,
multiply the lengths of the two diagonals and divide
by 2 (same as multiplying by 1/2):
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The
area of a square: |
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To find the area of a square,
multiply the lengths of two sides together...
Another way to say this is to say "square the length
of a side!" Get it? Square!
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The
area of a trapezoid: |
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To find the area of a
trapezoid... The longer base (the bottom) is
big B and the smaller base (the top) is little b...
Go here
to see where this formula comes from! |
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How to find the
area of strangely shaped objects: |
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Let's find
the area of this thing... We, basically, need to find
the area of each color and add them all up. And we'll
just have to find those areas one by one!
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Here are all the missing pieces:
Now, add
them all up!
6 +
4 +
32 +
6.28 =
48.28 |
