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 .
Answer
3 ft2
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?
Multiply the diagonals together and then halve the product.
12 ft2
What is the area of a kite with diagonals of lengths 5 inches and 1 foot?
Make sure to use matching units.
30 in2, or about 0.21 ft2
A kite has an area of 144 cm2 and a diagonal of 16 cm. What is the length of the other diagonal?
Rearrange the area formula for a kite.
18 cm
A kite has an area of 180 cm2 and a diagonal of 18 cm. What is the length of the other diagonal?
You know that , but you aren't solving for A.
20 cm
What is the area of this kite?
Use the Pythagorean Theorem to find the diagonal before solving for area.
104 cm2
I spy a right triangle with a hypotenuse of 26 cm. What are the lengths of the legs?
340 cm2
No Pythagorean Theorem required. Check out those congruent angles.
33 cm2
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