Area Exercises

Your baby sister's toy kite is 2 feet across from corner to corner and 3 feet tall from corner to corner. What is the area of your sister's kite?

Hint

"Across" and "tall" are both talkin' about the diagonals, and .

Your older brother's kite is 4 feet across from corner to corner and 6 feet tall from corner to corner. What is the area of your brother's kite?

Hint

Multiply the diagonals together and then halve the product.

What is the area of a kite with diagonals of lengths 5 inches and 1 foot?

Hint

Make sure to use matching units.

A kite has an area of 144 cm² and a diagonal of 16 cm. What is the length of the other diagonal?

Hint

Rearrange the area formula for a kite.

A kite has an area of 180 cm² and a diagonal of 18 cm. What is the length of the other diagonal?

Hint

You know that , but you aren't solving for A.

What is the area of this kite?

Hint

Use the Pythagorean Theorem to find the diagonal before solving for area.

What is the area of this kite?

Hint

I spy a right triangle with a hypotenuse of 26 cm. What are the lengths of the legs?

What is the area of this kite?

Hint

No Pythagorean Theorem required. Check out those congruent angles.