Chapter 11:

Area
11.1 Understanding area
11.2 Areas of Parallelograms and Triangles
11.3 The Area of a Trapezoid
11.4 Areas of Kites and Related Figures
11.5 Areas of Regular Polygons
11.6 Areas of Circles, Sectors, and Segments
11.7 Ratios of Areas
11.8 Hero’s and Brahmagupta’s Formulas
Notes
 Targets Chapter 11 – Area

# Target Examples/Notes
Find the areas of
quadrilaterals including
11A rectangles, squares,
parallelograms, trapezoids
and kites
Find the area of triangles
including equilateral
11B
triangles and using Hero’s
formula
Find the areas regular
11C
polygons
Find the areas of circles,
11D
sectors and segments
Find ratios of areas by
calculating and comparing
11E
the areas and using the
properties of similar figures
Notes
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Chapter 11 Formulas
1.) ARectangle = b*h 2.) ASquare = s2
Where b = base and h = height Where s = side length

3.) ATriangle = ½b*h 4.) AParallelogram = b*h

Where b = base and h = height Where b = base and h = height

5.) ATrapezoid = ½h*(b1 + b2) 6.) MTrapezoid Median = ½(b1 + b2)

Where h = height and b1 and b2 are the bases Where b1 and b2 are the bases

7.) ATrapezoid = M*h 8.) AKite = ½d1*d2

Where M = the median and h = height Where d1 and d2 are the diagonals

9.) AEquilateral Triangle = s 3

2
10.) ARegular Polygon = ½a*p
4
Where s = side length Where a = apothem and p = perimeter

11.) ACircle = πr2 12.) ASector of Circle =  mArc  πr2


 360 

Where r = radius Where Arc = intercepted arc in degrees and r = radius

ASector of Circle =  mArc  πr2 Where Arc = intercepted arc in radians


 2 


1 1
13.) ASegment of Circle =  mArc  πr2 - bh or  mArc  πr2 - bh
   

 360  2  2  2
Where Arc = intercepted arc, r = radius, b = base of triangle formed, and h = height of triangle formed.

A1  s1 2
14.) = s 
A2  2 
Where A1 and A2 are the areas of the original similar figures and s1 and s2 are the measures of the
corresponding sides.

15.) Area of a Triangle:

a+b+c
A = s(s-a)(s-b)(s-c) , where s= .
2
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1. Find the area of the shaded region. 17

10

2. The vertices of the shaded square are the midpoints of the sides of the larger
square. Find the ratio of the area of the larger square to the area of the smaller
square.

3. Find the area of the roof of the building that would be covered by shingles.

90°

20
32

4. Aaron says to Adam that AEB is the largest triangle below. Adam disagrees
and says that all 3 triangles are equal. Who is right?
A C D

B E
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1. Given parallelogram ABCD, find:

a. AE A 15 D

12
10
b. x : y
F
y
B E x C

2. Find the area of a regular hexagon with side of length 10.

3. Find the area of the following figure:

10

4. Find the area of a parallelogram with sides 6 and 10 and an included angle of
150º.

5. A parallelogram with sides 9 and 12 is inscribed in a circle. Find the area of the
region outside of the parallelogram but inside the circle.
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Practice 11.2
1-7. Find the base or the height
1. A = 60, b = 10, h = ________ 2. A = 40, h = 8, b = ________

3. b = ________ 4. h = ________

b 8 h
10 12
6
15
16
5. h = ________ 6. h = ________

5
6 h
h

12
8

7. h1 = 8, h2 = _______, h3 = _______ 8. Given: BC = 10, AE = 6, BD = 5

Find: AC
B
h3
15 12 E

h2 h1

10 A C
D

9. Find the area of a rectangle with diagonal 25 and height 7.

10. Find the area of a rectangle with a perimeter of 38 and one side is 7.
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11. Find the perimeter of a square whose area is 144.

12. The diagonal of a rectangle is 2 13 and the base is 6. Find the area and
perimeter.

13. Find the area of the shaded region. (Both figures are rectangles.)
25

14 10
17

14. Find the area of the following figure.

15 8

10

15. Find the area of an equilateral triangle with side length 10.

16. Find the area of the parallelogram.

14
8
60°

17. Find the area of a triangle whose sides are 10, 10, and 12.
 11-6
1. Find the area of the rhombus if its diagonals are 30 and 40.

2. Find the ratio of the areas of region I to region II in each figure.

a) GM is a median to FH b) ABCD is a trapezoid

G B C

I II
I II
F H A D
M E

c) II = area of ∆WXY d)
W

I II
I
P Q

X Y

3. The diagonals of a kite are 10 and 24. Find the area.

4. The perimeter of parallelogram ABCD is 154. Find the area.

A B

10

12
C
D
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Find the area of the following figures.

1. A = _________ 2. A = _________
9

10
9
30°
60°
16

3. A = _________ 4. A = _________
10 2
3 2 3
10
3
45° 7 2
2

5. A = _________ 6. A = _________

D
C
6 12 3

60° 45°
45° 30°
A B

7. A = _________ 8. A = _________

4 3 8 8

60° 45°
20 6
 11-8

Warm Up to Quiz 11.2:

1.) Find the area of the parallelogram as marked.

60o
13

2.) Find the area of an isosceles triangle with legs of 41 and base 18.
 11-9
Warm Ups:
1.) Find the area of a triangle that has vertices at (0, 0), (7, 4), and (6, 13) on a
coordinate plane.

2.) Find the area of a triangle that has vertices at (1, 1), (3, 6), and (8, 4) on a
coordinate plane.

J 2
3.) Find the area of triangle JPT.
2 K

P T

4.) Find the area of the shaded region. The circle is tangent to the rectangle in three
places and is also tangent to the isosceles trapezoid.
_

10
28
_

_
| 36 |
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Warm Ups 11.3 and 11.4:

1.) Find the area of the trapezoid with the given below:

15 cm
o
45 150o
20 cm

2.) One diagonal of a kite with area 252 is 3 units longer than the shorter diagonal. If
the shorter diagonal is divided in the ratio of 16 : 5, then what is the perimeter of
the kite?
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Based on North Suburban Math League Freshman contest—September 27, 1995.

1.) In the figure below, ABCD is a rectangle with sides of 24 inches and 12 inches as marked on
the diagram. BEC is an isosceles triangle with BE = EC. The circle in the diagram is tangent to
3 sides of the rectangle as shown. Point E is a vertex of the triangle and also a point of the
circle. Find the area of the shaded region, rounded to the nearest hundredth of a square inch.
24
1.) ____________________
| |
A B _

E 12

_
D C

2.) The area of the shaded triangle is 22% of the area of the entire rectangle shown. Find the
value of the unknown side, labeled x. Give the answer rounded to the nearest hundredth.
_ | 10 | _ 2.) ______________________
_
14
20
_
_
| x |

3.) The figure below is a right triangle with a semicircle having a leg of the right triangle as a
diameter. One leg of the right triangle is denoted 8x, and the radius of the semicircle is 3x.
Give the exact formula in terms of x for the perimeter of the figure shown.

3.) ______________________

.
3x

8x
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4.) A triangle has vertices located at (0, 0), (5, 2), and (2, 7) on a coordinate plane. Find the area
of the triangle.

4.) ______________________

5.) Find the area of an isosceles trapezoid with sides of 5 2 , 10, 5 2 , and 20.

5.) ______________________

Bonus: In the diagram, find the area of triangle ABC. Bonus: __________________
A
1
2

C
B
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Warm Ups for 11.5

1.) Find the area of an equilateral triangle with sides of 8.

2.) Find the area of a regular hexagon with sides of 8.

3.) Find the length of a side of an equilateral triangle if its area is 64 3 .

4.) Find the area of a regular hexagon with perimeter 60.

5.) Find the apothem and the area for a regular hexagon with a side length of 14.

6.) Find the area of a regular octagon with a side length of 14.
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Practice makes Perfect

1.) Find the area of the shaded segment below. The circle has a radius of 4 and the
triangle is equilateral.


2.) Find the area of a segment of a circle with radius 16 and a central angle of
6
radians.

3.) A rhombus has diagonals of length 16 and 22. Find the area of the quadrilateral
formed by joining the midpoints of the consecutive sides.

4.) An isosceles trapezoid has a smaller base of 4, a perimeter of 44, and acute
base angles of 60o. Find the trapezoid’s height.
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 Warm Ups to Quiz 11.4 

1.) Find the area of a trapezoid whose parallel sides are lengths 12 and 37 and
whose non-parallel sides are lenghts 30 and 35.

2.) (A / S / N) A diagonal of an isosceles trapezoid divides the trapezoid into two

triangles of equal perimeter.
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1. Given: AE = 3, ED = 6, AC = 12, BE = 5, BE CD

Find: CD = _______ AB = _______ BC = _______

A
Then find:

Ratio of the perimeter of ∆ABE to ∆ACD B E

Ratio of the area of ∆ABE to ∆ACD

C D
Ratio of the area of trapezoid BCDE to ∆ABE

2. Given: XY = 20, ZW = 12
X Y

IV
I
R
P V
III
II

Z W

Find the ratio of the area of the following:

a. I to II __________ b. II to III __________

c. III to IV __________ d. IV to I __________

e. IV to II __________ f. I to III __________

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3. Given: AB = 12, BC = 8, CF = 9 A B

Find: AE = ________

D C
E

4. Find : Ratio of Region I to II ________ 10

D C

Ratio of Region I to ABCD ________ II

Ratio of Region II to ABCD ________ I

A B
16

5. Given: ABCD is a parallelogram

AG : GB = 1 : 1 G
A B
DE : EC = 1 : 2
II
Find : Ratio of Region I to II ________

Ratio of Region I to ABCD ________

I

D C
E
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Warm Ups to Quiz 11.6

1.) The smaller regular hexagon is formed

by connecting the midpoints of the
sides of the larger hexagon. If the
perimeter of the smaller hexagon
60, then find the perimeter of the
larger hexagon.

2.) If the area of a square is 81, then find its apothem and radius.

3.) Find the apothem of an equilateral triangle whose area is 81 3 .

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Practice Problems!

1.) Find the area of the scalene triangles with sides 12, 9, and 7.

2.) The ratio of the corresponding heights of two similar triangles is 8 : 3. Find the
area of the smaller triangle if the area of the larger triangle is 1152.

3.) Find the area of the segment if the radius of the circle is 10.

120o

4.) Circle K is circumscribed in equilateral triangle MIE. If the area of the circle is
36 , then find the area of the triangle.
I

K
.
M E
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Chapter 11 Review

1.) Find the area of the shaded region if O is 6.) If the area of a square is 36, then find its apothem.
inscribed in the equilateral triangle with side length 6.

7.) Find the ratio of the areas of I to II .

O

I II
2.) The ratio of the corresponding altitudes of two

=
=
similar triangles is 4 : 3. Find the area of the larger
triangle if the smaller triangle has an area of 81.

8.) Find the area of the segment below. The circle has
a radius of 8.

120o
3.) One triangle has sides 13, 13, and 10. A second
triangle has sides 3, 4, and 5. Find the ratio of the
areas of the first triangle to the second triangle.

Area (I)
9.) If AC = 15, then find the ratio of .
Area ( ABC)
A

4.) Find the ratio of the area of the shaded triangle to 8 I

the entire triangle.
. 2
>>
>> C
.=
B

.=
=
10.) Find the area of a regular hexagon with radius
12.

5.) Find the area of the triangle below.

6
3 Bonus: Find the area of a trapezoid whose parallel
sides are lengths 15 and 36 and whose non-parallel
7 sides are 17 and 10.
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CHAPTER 11 PARTNER CHALLENGE
1.) Find the exact area of the shaded region 5.) If MA = 9 and RA = 6, and if
given the concentric circles with KM RMA  KRA , then find the ratio of the
tangent to the smaller circle of radius 6. area of triangle I to the area of triangle II.
M
I

=
K M I K
=
E II
R A

6.) A circle is inscribed in a rhombus. Find

2.) The sides of a trapezoid are in the ratio of the area of the shaded region if the
2:5:8:5. If the trapezoid’s area is 245, diagonals of the rhombus are 30 and 40.
then find the height and perimeter of the
trapezoid.

3.) Find the exact area of the triangle below.

7.) Three circles, each with radius 8, are all
tangent to each other. Find the area of
8 120o the shaded region.

45o

4.) An isosceles trapezoid has a smaller base

of length 2, a perimeter of length 70, and 8.) Find the shaded area.
acute base angles of 60o. Find the
trapezoid’s area.
4
. .
4 4

4
. 4
4