Year 9 Interactive Maths - Second Edition

Area of a Kite

Recall that:

Example 16

Find the area of the following kite.

Solution:

So, the area of the kite is 600 cm².

Remember:

• Two pairs of adjacent sides of a kite are equal and one pair of opposite angles are equal.
• The diagonals bisect each other at right angles.
• The area of a kite is given by the following formula where x and y are the lengths of the kite's diagonals: