Area of a Figures having Irregular Shapes

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Area of a Figures having Irregular Shapes: Overview

This topic covers concepts such as estimating area of different shapes using square paper, finding area of irregular shapes, area of general polygon, triangulation of a polygon, and method to find area of a polygon by triangulation.

Important Questions on Area of a Figures having Irregular Shapes

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Some of the measures are given in the adjacent figure. Find the area of the quadrilateral ABCD

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Estimate the area of the following shape by using square graph paper.

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The diagonal of a quadrilateral-shaped field is 12 m and the perpendiculars dropped on it from the remaining opposite vertices are 6 m and 8 m. Find the area of the field by the method of triangulation.

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Find the area of the regular pentagon given below by the method of triangulation.

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Find the area of the below polygon by the method of triangulation.

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Look at the picture, Can you divide the figure into four equal parts. How many squares are there in each part?

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Shown below is rhombus ABCD.

Its diagonals, AC = 24 cm and BD = 10 cm,

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What is the length of its side CD?

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A goldsmith took the measurements around a Ruby stone and found it to be 12cm. What is this measurement?

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Raju drew a Rhombus of side ‘a’ cm. His teacher told him to increase the side to 4 less than twice the current size. What will be the perimeter of the new rhombus?

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The diagonals of a rhombus are 12 cm and 15 cm. The area of the rhombus is equal to

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The area of a rhombus whose diagonals are 10 cm and 20 cm is equal to
 

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An auditorium hall is in the shape of a rhombus such that the lengths of the two diagonals of the hall are 12 m and 16 m. Find the cost of painting the floor at the rate of  6.50 per sq. m.

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Find the area of figure B if the area of each square =1 m2

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Find area of figure A if area of each square = 1 m2

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Find the area of triangle C if the area of each square =1 cm2

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Find area of triangle B if the area of each square =1 cm2

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Find the approximate area of the shape below. Take the area of each small square to be 1 sq cm.

(A whole number without the unit is expected in the blank)

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If the area enclosed in the shape is k sq.cm then find the value of k. Take the area of each small square as 1 sq cm.

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Find the approximate area of the shape below. Take the area of each small square to be 1 sq cm. (A whole number without the unit is expected in the blank)

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Find the area of the below regular shape.  (Hints: Each small square is of 1 sq. cm area)

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If the area is k sq. cm, then find the value of k.