I love these. It's often called the Shoelace Formula. It actually works for the area of any 2D polygon.
We can derive it by first imagining our triangle in the first quadrant, one vertex at the origin, one at (a,b), one at (c,d), with (0,0),(a,b),(c,d) in counterclockwise order.
Our triangle is inscribed in the
rectangle. There are three right triangles in that rectangle that aren't part of our triangle. When we subtract the area of the right triangles from the area of the rectangle we're left with the area S of our triangle.

That's the cross product in the purest form. When we're away from the origin, a arbitrary triangle with vertices
will have the same area as one whose vertex C is translated to the origin.
We set 

That's a perfectly useful formula right there. But it's usually multiplied out:


That's the usual form, the sum of cross products. Let's line up our numbers to make it easier.
(1, 2), (3, 4), (−7, 7)
(−7, 7),(1, 2), (3, 4),
[tex]A = \frac 1 2 ( 1(7)-2(-7) + 3(2)-4(1) + -7(4) - (7)(3)
17. The constant is the number that's by itself with no variable attached to it. Hope this helped!
Answer:
V=1.3(repeating)A+1.3(repeating)M
Answer:
∠ 2 = 70°
Step-by-step explanation:
110° and ∠ 1 are corresponding angles and congruent, thus
∠ 1 = 110°
∠ 1 and ∠ 2 are adjacent angles and are supplementary, thus
∠ 2 = 180° - ∠ 1 = 180° - 110° = 70°
The equation you'd make would be (2x-2)+(2x-2)+x+x=20 because the length is 2 m less than the width (x). To simplify, it'd be 6x-4=20 because you combine like terms. You then move the -4 over to the 20 to make it 6x=24. The final answer is 4 meters.