POW #23, due Monday 4/27
ABCD is a rectangle. Find the area of ABCD, and be sure to explain how you did it!
XC: If you are feeling really creative you might try to find two different routes to a solution of this problem; if you do you will receive extra credit.
Finding AB should be easy. Just use the Pythagorean theorem. Then you need to find AD or BC, and you’ll be ready to compute the area of rectangle ABCD.
Oh, one thing to remember when you are finding AD or BC…because ABCD is a rectangle, you know all of its interior angles. And because you know all of the side lengths of triangle AEB, you can compute all of its interior angles.
So using the angle-sum postulates and the methods in Chapters 14-1 and 14-2, you should be able to figure out the lengths of every other angle in the drawing and every line segment.