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7.

3 Area of Polygons
a) Area of a triangle
1 x1 x 2 x 3 x 1
2 y1 y 2 y 3 y 1
1
= (x 1 y 2 + x 2 y 3 + x 3 y 1 ) − (y 1 x 2 + y 2 x 3 + y 3 x 1
2
b) Area of quadrilateral
1 x1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 1
2 y1 y 2 y 3 y 4 y 1
1
= (x 1 y 2 + x 2 y 3 + x 3 y 4 + x 4 y 1 ) − (y 1 x 2 + y 2 x 3 + y 3 x 4 + y 4 x 1
2
a) Find the area of each of the following triangles and quadrilaterals with the given vertices.
1 E(2,3),F (5,4),G(3,−6) 2 E(0,1), F (2,3), G(4 ,−1)

2 2
14 units 6 units
3 E (−1,2), F (6,3), G(3,2), H(1,−4) 4 E (−2,1), F (5,4), G(4,−1), H(2,−3)

2 2
14 units 24 units
B) Given the vertices and the area of a triangle, find the values of k.
1 E(−1,0), F (k ,4), G(3,1); Area = 6.5unit 2 2 E(k ,0), F (4 ,2), G(3,−2); Area = 9unit 2

2 or 28 -1 or 8
3 E (−3,0), F (0, k), G(5,−1); Area = 17.5unit 2 4 E (−1,3), F (6,4), G(5, k); Area = 6.5unit 2

19 40
4 or - 2 or
4 7
C) Determine whether the following points are collinear
1 A(4,3), B(1,−3), C (−2,−9) 2 A(5,5), B(−1,3), C (−4,2)

Collinear Collinear
3 E (6,10), F (4 ,6), G(1,0) 4 S(10,4),T (−2,−5),U(2,−2)

Collinear Not Collinear


D) Given that A,B and C are collinear, find the value of h
1 A(−6,2), B(h,−1), C (−9,3) 2 A(−2,1), B(2, h), C (10,4)

3 2
3 A(6,4), B(0,1), C (h,−1) 4 A(1,2), B(3, h), C (5,14)

-4 8

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