Question

Find the area of the kite

Answer 1

so we can look at this as two triangles, one on the upper part, it has a base of 5+5 and a height of 5, and another triangle on the lower part, it has a base of 5+5 and a height of 12, let's get their area and sum them up.

`\stackrel{ \textit{upper part} }{\cfrac{1}{2}(\underset{b}{5+5})(\underset{h}{5})}~~ + ~~\stackrel{ \textit{lower part} }{\cfrac{1}{2}(\underset{b}{5+5})(\underset{h}{12})}\implies25+60\implies \text{\LARGE 85}`