SOLUTION: How do you find the area of a quadrilateral?
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Question 192621: How do you find the area of a quadrilateral?
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Answer by RAY100(1637) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
usually area = base * height
remember height is altitude from base to top of quadrilateral
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
That would depend a great deal on what sort of information you were given about the quadrilateral and whether or not the quadrilateral were one of the 6 special types of quadrilateral or simply a general irregular quadrilateral.
John

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