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I want to know how to find the area of a quadrilateral.
 

 

Hi Jonathan,

The way to find the area of a quadrilateral is to divide it into two triangles and add the areas of the triangles.

The area of a triangle you can find either by the familiar "half the base times the height" expression or by using Heron's Formula.

Penny

 
 

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