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Honors Geometry Section 5.2 Areas of Triangles and Quadrilaterals. You can see that the area of parallelogram ABCD is equal to the area of rectangle EBCF. For a parallelogram with base b and height h , the area is given by the formula: A parallelogram = ______. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Honors Geometry Section 5.2
Areas of Triangles and Quadrilaterals
WHY?
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You can see that the area of parallelogram ABCD is equal to the area of rectangle EBCF.
For a parallelogram with base b and height h, the area is given by
the formula: A parallelogram = ______
Note that the height is the length of the segment perpendicular to the base from a point on the opposite side which is called
the altitude of the parallelogram.
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Any triangle is half of a parallelogram. For a triangle with base b and height h, the area is given by the formula:
A triangle = ________
The height is the length of the ____________ to the base
bh21
altitude
Example: Find the area of to the nearest 1000th.
226.410
25sin
AC
AC
063.910
25cos
BC
BC
2uA 150.19063.9226.45.
Example: A triangle has an area of 56 and a base of 10. Find its height.
h
hbA
102156
21
2.11h
2uA 15)3)(10(5.
Trigonometry and the Area of a Triangle
Using your knowledge of trigonometry, express h in terms of sinC.
Substituting this into the formula , and using a as the base we get
b
hC sin hCb sin
bhA2
1
CabA sin2
1
We have just discovered that the area of a triangle can be expressed using the lengths of two sides and
the sine of the included angle.
Example: Use what you have learned above to find the area of parallelogram ABCD to the nearest 1000th.
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50sin2515
2
12// gramA
50sin2515// gramA
2// 267.287 cmA gram
An altitude of a trapezoid is a segment perpendicular to the two bases with an endpoint in each of
the bases.
The length of an altitude will be the height of the trapezoid.
For a trapezoid with bases b1 and b2 and height h, the area of a trapezoid is given by the formula: 21. 2
1 bbhAtrap
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hb121
hbhb 12 21
21 )(2
112 bbh
Recall that the diagonals of both rhombuses and kites are
perpendicular.
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