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The Build-Your-Own-Sailboat booth that Althea visited gave her and hers friend the chance to make a sailboat model. Each boy chose a different quadrilateral for a sail. Althea chose a trapezoid, and her friend chose a parallelogram.

(a) Compose each shape into a rectangle to determine the area. The formula for area of a rectangle is A = lw . What is the area of each quadrilateral?

(b) Althea said that all quadrilaterals can be decomposed into triangles to find the area of the quadrilateral. Is this statement always true, sometimes true, or always false? Give two examples to support your answer.

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A quadrilateral is a four sided figure. It is possible to decompose the quadrilaterals to give two triangles by taking apart the diagonal that runs across the figure

What is a quadrilateral?

A quadrilateral is a four sided figure. The images are not shown here so we don't know what the dimensionof each figure is.

It is possible to decompose the quadrilaterals to give two triangles by taking apart the diagonal that runs across the figure and find the area of the two triangles in order to obtain the area of the orginal figure.

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