Question

Find the area of a kite with diagonals measuring 4 cm and 8 cm? What are the steps to solve this?

Answer 1

Not looking for an easy answer, I really want to figure out how to solve problems like these :/

Answer 2

draw it out

Answer 3

There's no drawing to go along with it though,

Answer 4

that's all there is to the question, that's why I'm confused.

Answer 5

draw a kite atleast madam

Answer 6

Sorry, what's the formula for area of a kite?

Answer 7

a kite has 4 triangles, so the formula per se is, the area of all its triangles :)

Answer 8

^ that is the best way to do this problem

Answer 9

other way is to use the formula directly (blindly) :-

area of kite = 1/2(d1 * d2)

Answer 10

here,

d1=4
d2=8

Answer 11

plugin and simplify

Answer 12

@jdoe0001, in your picture you drew, why is it labeled 2 if the diagonals are 4 and 8?

Answer 13

Oh ok, so then the area would be 16 cm squared?

Answer 14

yep !