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I need help I really don't know how to do this ??

I need help I really don't know how to do this ??-example-1

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we can divide a square or a quadrilateral into two triangles. This gives us that the area of a triangle is half the area of the quadrilateral with the same base and height.
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think of this as a sandwich. the sandwich is a quadrilateral. if you cut it in half diagonally, it becomes 2 triangles (I hoped this helped I'm not so great at analogies)
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