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How do I find the area of different shapes? Is it the same exact as finding the area of a square?Please help! e.g. Trapezoid, Triangle, Octagon

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Then area of each shape can be find ina different form. Each figure have a formula to find the area.

For example

Trapezoid:

[tex]A=\frac{1}{2}(B_1+B_2)\cdot h[/tex]

Where B1 is one of the bases and B2 the other base. h is the vertical height.

Triangle:

[tex]A=\frac{1}{2}(b\cdot h)[/tex]

b is the base and h is the vertical height.

Regular polygon:

[tex]A=\frac{P\cdot a}{2}[/tex]

P is the perimeter of the regular polygon and a is the apothem (the distance for the center of the polygon to the mind-point of a side.

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