AREA OF A KITE The area formula for a kite is found by rearranging the pieces formed by the dia gonals

into a rectangle. Since one side is half of a diagonal, the area of a rho mbus formula is one half the product of the diagonals. An additional formula for the area of a rhombus is to use the kite formula (it works because rhombuses ar e technically kites). A kite has two pairs of adjacent sides equal and one pair of opposite angles equ al. Diagonals intersect at right angles. One diagonal is bisected by the other . Consider the area of the following kite. Diagonals of a kite cut one another at right angles as shown by diagonal AC bise cting diagonal BD. Example 7 Find the area of the following kite. Solution: So, the area of the kite is 176 cm2. Kite (geometry) Kite A kite showing its equal sides and its inscribed circle. In Euclidean geometry a kite is a quadrilateral whose four sides can be grouped into two pairs of equal-length sides that are adjacent to each other. A kite, as defined above, may be either convex or concave, but the word "kite" is often re stricted to the convex variety. Special cases If all four sides of a kite have the same length (that is, if the kite is equila teral), it must be a rhombus. If a kite is equiangular, meaning that all four of its angles are equal, then it must also be equilateral and thus a square. Characterizations A quadrilateral is a kite if and only if any one of the following statements is true: Two pairs of adjacent sides are equal (by definition). One diagonal is the perpendicular bisector of the other diagonal. (In the concav e case it is the extension of one of the diagonals.) One diagonal is a line of symmetry (it divides the quadrilateral into two congru ent triangles). Exactly one pair of opposite angles are bisected by a diagonal. Area Every kite is orthodiagonal, meaning that its two diagonals are at right angles to each other. Moreover, one of the two diagonals (the symmetry axis) is the per pendicular bisector of the other, and is also the angle bisector of the two angl es it meets. As is true more generally for any orthodiagonal quadrilateral, the area K of a kite may be calculated as half the product of the lengths of the dia gonals p and q: Alternatively, if a and b are the lengths of two unequal sides, and is the angle between unequal sides, then the area is One of the two diagonals of a convex kite divides it into two isosceles triangle s; the other (the axis of symmetry) divides the kite into two congruent triangle s.[7] The two interior angles of a kite that are on opposite sides of the symmet ry axis are equal

Extensions: Students can be asked to find a formula for area of a trapezoid by breaking it u p into two triangles. The area formula for this method is: . A = a b where a and b are the lengths of the diagonals