Area of a Polygon

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8th CBSE
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Important Questions on Area of a Polygon

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There is an octagonal shaped park as shown in the given figure. For finding its area, Priya and Divya divided it into two different ways.

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Find the area of this park using both ways. Can you suggest some other way of finding its area?

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A general quadrilateral can be split into two triangles by drawing one of its diagonal.

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Top surface of a raised platform is in the shape of a regular hexagon as shown in the given figure. If the area of the hexagonal surface is k cm2, then find k up to two decimal places. [Use, 3=1.732]

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A polygon ABCDE is divided into five parts as given below, where AD=10 cm, AH=8 cm, AG=5 cm¯, AF=2 cm, CH=2 cm, BF=3 cm and EG=3.5 cm.

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If the area of polygon ABCDE is k cm2, then find the value of k.