Question

What is the area of pentagon ABCDE?

Answer 1

A(-2,-1),B(-2,3),C(3,5),D(5,3),E(5,-1)

Answer 2

what is the area of a pentagon?

Answer 3

gane?

Answer 4

tips?

Answer 5

plot the points in xy-grid

Answer 6

like we did in last problem

Answer 7

so find the distances?

Answer 8

the distance from A to E is 7

Answer 9

you would get something like that

Answer 10

wait...

Answer 11

so

Answer 12

7 times 7 times 7 times 7 times 7?

Answer 13

find area of rectangle and triangle separately and add them

Answer 14

The area was 35, though...

Answer 15

couldn't you just multiply 7 by 5?

Answer 16

begin by plotting the points

Answer 17

k

Answer 18

BA=4