What is the area of a rectangle with vertices at (-4, 0) , (-3, 1) , (0, - 2), and (-1, - 3) ?

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Wong

2 April, 21:34

What is the area of a rectangle with vertices at (-4, 0) , (-3, 1) , (0, - 2), and (-1, - 3) ?

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Jazmin Hernandez · Answer 1

One of the way to find the area is the following.

First you have to find width and length of the rectangle. To do that you can use formula

d = √ (x2-x1) ^2 + (y2-y1) ^2

You have A (-4, 0), B (-3, 1), C (0, - 2), D (-1, - 3) and find |AB| and |BC|, Then the area would be |AB|*|BC|