AREA
The area of a shape is the amount of space enclosed within
the boundary of the shape.
Example
1) What is the area of a triangle with base 2 cm and height
4 cm?
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Area of a Triangle =
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𝐴𝑟𝑒𝑎 𝑜𝑓 Δ = = = 4 cm
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Area of a Triangle using Heron’s Formula
Note that (a + b + c) is the perimeter of the triangle.
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Therefore, 's' is the semi-perimeter which is:
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Example
Find the area of a triangle with 3 sides given as: 3 cm, 6 cm,
and 7 cm.
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semi-perimeter = = =8
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area of the triangle using the Heron's formula.
𝑨 = +𝒔(𝒔 − 𝒂)(𝒔 − 𝒃)(𝒔 − 𝒄)
𝑨 = +𝟖(𝟖 − 𝟑)(𝟖 − 𝟔)(𝟖 − 𝟕)
𝑨 = √𝟖 𝐱 𝟓 𝐱 𝟐 𝐱 𝟏
𝑨 = √𝟒𝟎
Area ≈ 8.94 𝑐𝑚%
Exercise
1) Find the area of a triangle with sides of length 5 cm, 12
cm, and 13 cm.
2) A triangle has base 10 cm and height 15 cm. What is the
area?
3) Find the area of triangle ABC.
Area of a Parallelogram
Example
1) Find the area of the parallelogram with the base of 4 cm
and height of 5 cm.
Area of Parallelogram = b × h
A=4×5
A = 20 cm2
Therefore, the area of a parallelogram = 20 cm2
2) The base of the parallelogram is thrice its height. If the
area is 192 cm2, find the base and height.
Let the height of the parallelogram = h cm
then, the base of the parallelogram = 3h cm
Area of the parallelogram = 192 cm2
Area of parallelogram = base × height
192 = 3h × h
⇒ 3 × h2 = 192
⇒ h2 = 64
⇒ h = √64
⇒ h = 8 cm
Height of the parallelogram is 8 cm,
Breadth = 3 × h
=3×8
= 24 cm
Breadth of the parallelogram is 24 cm
Exercise
1) Find the area of a parallelogram whose base is 8 cm and
height is 4 cm.
2) Find the area of a parallelogram with a base equal to 7
m and height is 9 m.
3) The base of the parallelogram is thrice its height. If the
area is 147 𝑚% , then what is the value of its base and
height?
4) The area of a parallelogram is 500 𝑐𝑚% . Its height is
twice its base. Find the height and base.
Area of a circle
Example
If the length of the radius of a circle is 4 m % . Calculate its
area.
Area of a circle = pr %
A = 3.142 × 4%
A = 3.142 × 16
A = ≈ 50.27
The area of the circle is 50.27 m % .
Exercise
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1) Taking p to be , find the area of a circle with radius 7
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cm.
2) Find the circumference and the area of a circle whose
radius is 14 m.
Area of Composite Shapes
Find the area of the shapes below
