Area of Irregular Shapes

This video illustrates how to find the area of an irregular shape by breaking it down into familiar regular shapes, as required by high school geometry courses. For more instructional videos, as well as exercise and answer sheets, go to:

http://www.thefreemathtutor.com

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• area
• regular
• irregular
• shape
• geometry
• square
• trapezoid
• triangle
• base
• height
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[niquil33]

Where in all the hells do you see a trapezoid? All I see is a rectangle, a right triangle, another right triangle, and a square.

[dougsimmsonline]

The rectangle and one of the right triangles that you noticed (the one of the right side) combine to make a trapezoid.

[hm20010]

there is an excel spreadsheet with formulas to calculate regular and irregular polygon by using cartesian coordinates. It can be used to calculate land lot area, etc...

maruzar.blogspot.com/2011/12/i­rregular-and-regular-polygon-a­rea.html

for perimeter calculation

maruzar.blogspot.com/2011/12/i­rregular-and-regular-polygon-p­erimeter.html

[Bri10anna10]

@Italian77721 math isnt my thing either i barely passed every yr ._. i need to understand it like 5 or more times till i get it and now im geometry this yr and i suck at it

[Bri10anna10]

thnx not good in math but tomorrow is my first test on this just started Geometry

[Italian77721]

I suck at math never did understand it well, I got lost in the firs quarter if this video, i need to view it 4 more times in order to get it into my head....LOL. Math is just not my thing.

[staci444]

It would be really helpful if that link was more toward the bottom :)

[TheFearsomeThr33some]

thanks for the help, i needed for a take home quiz :)

[aprillshowers]

thanks! i really needed help.