Area of Kite

Look at the following figures!

The name of the figure is kite ABCD.
There are 2 diagonals, AC and BD.
How to find the area of kite ABCD?
Cut kite ABCD according to the diagonal BD. Then, we get two triangles as follows:







I. Triangle ABD with base BD and height AO, and
II. Triangle BCD with base BD and height OC


A
B
C
B

0
I
II
0 A
B
B
B
B
0 C
Example: Find the area of the following kite!




The area of ABCB the area of ABB + the area of BCB

BB A0

BB 0C

BB A0 0C

BB AC A0 0C AC
Generally, the area of kite is formulated as follow.






Solution:
Biagonal Eu cm and FB cm
The area of kite EFuB

Eu FB

So, the area of kite EFuB is cm

The area of kite

5 cm
8 cm





Exercise
1. Adi has a kite. Its diagonal are cm and cm. What is the area of Adis kite?
2. Rahman is making a kite from paper. The area of kite he want is cm

The
length of the first diagonal is 8 cm. What is the length of the other diagonal?
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Find the Area of Kite
1. In grid paper, draw a kite ABCB