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Suppose you are given the coordinates of the vertices of a polygon. What steps could you take to solve a problem involving the polygon's area?
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Suppose you are given the coordinates of the vertices of a polygon. What steps could you take to solve a problem involving the polygon's area?

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find the area of the polygon by finding the legnth of its sides by finding distance between vertices

distance between ponts (a,b) an (c,d) is
D=
\sqrt{(c-a)^(2)+(d-b)^(2)}


do the rest yourself by intuistion
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