Real-World Area of Triangles and Quadrilaterals

1. What do we know? What do we want to find out? What is the area of Ms. Newton's flower bed in square yards? Square feet? 4 square yards36 square feet How many bags of topsoil are needed to cover the flower bed? Ms. Newton will need to buy 4 bags of topsoil to cover her flower bed. Explain - IN DETAIL - how you found your answer. 2. What do we know? What do we want to find out? The area of the figure George wants to paint is 21 square feet. 3.Get a sheet of graph paper. What type of figure is it? trapezoidWhat is the area of the figure? 10.5 square units 4. Explain how finding the area of a triangle is related to finding the area of a rectangle or parallelogram.