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Areas of Plane Figures

Were you able to visualize all these simple plane (2-dimensional) shapes "in your head" without resort to actual drawings? If so, you may have a "knack" for geometry, if not Geometry. If it was confusing without the pictures, they are provided in Fig. 4.1 with the appropriate labels.


  
Figure: A few plane geometrical shapes, with labels.
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