How do you find the area of something? Do you multiply the numbers or what?

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anonymous · Answer

Circle would be pi times radius squared. A square would be length times width. It depends on what exactly your finding the area of.

anonymous · Answer

A Trapezoid

anonymous · Answer

Ok there are two different ways to do a trapezoid. You can break it up into 3 pieces, treating the end pieces as triangles and finding their areas (.5 times (base * height)), and then you add the area of the central square (length times width). 

Or there is a special formula for trapezoids. Area = (1/2) * (the two bases added together) * (height of trapezoid)

anonymous · Answer

thank you