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Find the area of the polygon. Please help.

Find the area of the polygon. Please help.-example-1
User Sasidhar Boddeti
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Answer:

40 units

Explanation:

The area of this rhombus can be broken up to four 4 by 5 right triangles, each having an area of 4*5/2=10, so the answer to your desired question is 10*4=40

User Martinlasek
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Hey there!

The correct answer is 40 units squared.

We can solve this by breaking up the shape. There are four equivalent right triangles, so we can solve for one, and multiply it by 4! The area of a triangle is bh/2 or base * height / 2. So, we can set up the following equation:

(4 * 5) / 2 = area

20 / 2 = area

10 = area

Now we can multiply it by 4, which gives us 10 * 4 or 40.

Have a terrificly amazing day! :D

User Jack Bracken
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