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Identity

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Registered: 2007-04-18

Posts: 934

Find Area

Find the area described by

and

Is this the SAME area as

and

?

Thanks~!

Last edited by Identity (2009-04-12 05:01:26)

JaneFairfax

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Registered: 2007-02-23

Posts: 6,868

Re: Find Area

The first shape is the interior of the triangle with vertices

,

,

.

The second shape is the interior of the triangle with vertices

,

,

.

Last edited by JaneFairfax (2009-04-12 05:58:58)

Identity

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Registered: 2007-04-18

Posts: 934

Re: Find Area

Thanks Jane, I was having trouble finding the vertices for the first graph.

However, I used the cross product to find the areas and they are still equal.