Formulas and Such
How do you find the area of a composite shape?
You could divide it up into familiar shapes, find the area of these shapes, and add up the total area.
Find the area of a triangle with a base of 100 meters and a height of 9 meters
450 square meters
Find the area of a parallelogram with a base length of 10 miles and height of 100 miles
1000 miles2
What is the mathematical definition of a trapezoid?
A quadrilateral with only one pair of parallel sides.
What is the area formula for a rectangle?
A = bh (area = base times height)
Find the area of a triangle where the height is 4 ft and the base is 6 ft.
12 square feet
Find the area of a square where the side length is 2 ft
4 ft2
What is the area of a trapezoid with a height of 4mm and base heights of 6 mm and 7 mm?
26 mm2
What is the area formula for a parallelogram?
A = bh (base x height)
Find the area of a triangle when the base is 12 meters and the height is 2 meters
12 square meters
Find the area of a parallelogram with a base of 12 feet and height of 6 feet
72 square feet
The area of a trapezoid with base sides of 6 and 10 inches and height of 4 inches
32 square inches
What is the area for a square?
A= s2 (side x side) or A = bh (base x height)
Find the area of a triangle that has a base of 20 cm and a height of 14 cm
140 cm2
Find the area of a rectangle with a length of 6 yards and a width of 2 yards
12 yards squared
Find the area of the trapezoid with a height of 8 meters and bases of 4 and 10 meters.
160 square meters
A trapezoid is divided into two shapes by making a cut with one line. What two shapes could that be?
It could be two non-congruent triangles or you could have a rectangle and a triangle. If you sliced it down the middle... two trapezoids.
Find the area of a triangle if the height is 7 inches and the base is 10 inches.
35 in2
Find the Area of the Square with a side length of 20 inches
400 square inches
Find the area of a trapezoid with a height of 3 yards, and bases of 4 yards and 11 yards.
22.5 square yards