Area of a General Quadrilateral

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Area of a General Quadrilateral: Overview

This topic covers concepts such as Area of General Quadrilateral, Area of Rhombus, etc.

Important Questions on Area of a General Quadrilateral

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The Diagonal AC=15 cm of ABCD and the lengths of the perpendiculars drawn from B and D to AC are 3 cm and 5 cm respectively. Then find the area of the quadrilateral ABCD

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The base of a parallelogram is 21 cm and the corresponding height is 16 cm. A rhombus has the same area as the parallelogram. If one diagonal of the rhombus is 48 cm find perimeter of the rhombus.

 

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The base of a parallelogram is 21 cm and the corresponding height is 16 cm. A rhombus has the same area as the parallelogram. If one diagonal of the rhombus is 48 cm find other diagonal.

 

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The diagonals of a rhombus are 32 cm  and 24 cm. Find its area in cm2.(Do not write unit)

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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 area of a rhombus is equal to the area of a triangle whose base and the corresponding altitude are 24.8 cm and 16.5 cm respectively. If one of the diagonals of the rhombus is 22 cm, let the length of the other diagonal be k cm. Find the value of k (up to one decimal place).

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Find the area of a rhombus whose side is 6.5 cm and altitude is 5 cm. If one of its diagonal is 13 cm long, let the length of other diagonal be k cm. Find the value of k.

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Each side of a rhombus is 13 cm and one diagonal is 10 cm. Let the area of the rhombus is k cm2. Find the value of k.

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Each side of a rhombus is 13 cm and one diagonal is 10 cm. Let the length of its other diagonal be k cm. Find value of k.

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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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If the diagonal d of a quadrilateral is doubled and the heights h1 and h2 falling on d are halved, then the area of quadrilateral _____.

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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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The length of a diagonal of a quadrilateral shaped field is 48 m and the lengths of perpendiculars dropped on it from the remaining opposite vertices are 16 m and 26 m. Find the area of the field.

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If the lengths of two diagonals of a rhombus are 16 cm and 30 cm, find the area and the length of the side of the rhombus.

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To tile the floor of a room of dimensions 8 m ×4·8 m, rhombus-shaped tiles of diagonals 16 cm and 12 cm costing 24 and square-shaped tiles of diagonal 16 cm costing 28 are available. Which type of tiles should be chosen to minimize the cost? How much can be saved by choosing the right type over the other?