Example 1
The area of a regular hexagon 𝐴𝐵𝐶𝐷𝐸𝐹 is given as 12 cm2. 𝑀, 𝑁, 𝑃 are midpoints of 𝐴𝐵,
𝐶𝐷 and 𝐸𝐹 respectively. Find the area of ∆𝑀𝑁𝑃.
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Practice 1
Find the area of the shaded region, given that the square is inscribed in a right-angled
isosceles triangle.
Example 2
The area of ∆𝐴𝐵𝐶 is 180 cm2. 𝐷 is the midpoint of 𝐵𝐶, 𝐴𝐷 = 3𝐴𝐸, 𝐸𝐹 = 3𝐵𝐹. What is the
area of ∆𝐴𝐸𝐹?
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Practice 2
Two straight lines 𝐵𝐷 and 𝐶𝐹 divide rectangle 𝐴𝐵𝐶𝐷 into 4 regions: 𝑃, 𝑄, 𝑅 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑆. Find
the area of the region 𝑆, given that the areas of region 𝑃 and region 𝑄 are 4 cm2 and 6 cm2,
respectively.
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Example 3
Two walking paths were constructed on a rectangular piece of grassland as shown. Find the
area of the grassland. [Hint: Area of parallelogram = Base × Height]
Practice 3
The side length of square 𝐸𝐹𝐺𝐻 is given as 10 cm. 𝐵 is a point on 𝐸𝐹. Find the area of the
shaded region if the area of the quadrilateral 𝐴𝐵𝐶𝐷 is 6 cm2.
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Example 4
The figure is a square made of 4 identical right-angled triangles. A small square is thus
formed in the middle.2𝐻𝐸 = 𝐸𝐵, area of square 𝐸𝐹𝐺𝐻 = 7. Find the area of square 𝐴𝐵𝐶𝐷.
Practice 4
In ∆𝐴𝐵𝐶, 𝐷, 𝐸 and 𝐹 are midpoints of 𝐴𝐹, 𝐵𝐷 and 𝐶𝐸 respectively. Find the area of ∆𝐴𝐵𝐶,
if area of ∆𝐷𝐸𝐹 is given as 12 cm2.
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Practice 5
𝐴𝐶 is perpendicular to 𝐵𝐷 in quadrilateral 𝐴𝐵𝐶𝐷. Find the area of ∆𝐵𝐶𝑂.
Practice 6
A triangle is formed by 4 smaller triangles. The areas of the 4 triangles are 14 cm2, 35 cm2,
49 cm2 and 21 cm2 respectively. Find the area of ∆𝐵𝐸𝐹.
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Practice 7
The area of quadrilateral 𝐴𝐵𝐶𝐷 is 52 cm2. Find the area of the region marked 𝑀.
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Practice 8
The perimeter of parallelogram 𝐴𝐵𝐶𝐷 is 75 cm. 𝐴𝐸 = 14 cm, 𝐴𝐷 = 16 cm. Find the area
of 𝐴𝐵𝐶𝐷.
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Practice 9
𝐴𝐷 = 𝐵𝐶 in the regular trapezium, 𝐴𝐵 = 2𝐶𝐷. It is given that 𝐴𝐸 = 16 cm, 𝐵𝐶 = 10 cm.
Find the area of the trapezium.
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Try These!
1. A square ABCD, has an area of 120 cm2. Given that 𝐸 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐹 are the mid-points of
𝐴𝐵 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐵𝐶 respectively, find the area of 𝐵𝐺𝐻𝐹.
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2. In rectangle 𝐴𝐵𝐶𝐷 , 𝐷𝐸 = 4𝐴𝐸 , 𝐶𝐹 = 3𝐹𝐷 . Given that 𝐴𝐵 = 12 cm, 𝐵𝐶 = 20 cm,
what is the area of the shaded region?
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