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            Areas of Kites and Related Figures - Lesson 11-4 
            Today we discussed how to find the area of a kite.  We started with this one: 
              
            Now, if you break the kite up into four triangles and rearrange them in a particular way, you get a rectangle.  From there, you should be able to see how we get to a formula for the area. 
              
            Note that red reminder!! 
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