Question

Find the area of the kite.

Answer 1

@mathstudent55

Answer 2

Triangles are essentially half of rectangles or squares...and do you know how to find the area for rectangles/squares?

Answer 3

WXL = rec
a^2= square

Answer 4

is that right?

Answer 5

Right, and the areas of squares can also be found by W x L (we just right it as a^2 because all the widths and lengths would be the same and so a x a = a^2)

Then if a triangle is 1/2 a square or rectangle, how can we re-write the formula to get the area of a triangle?