Change a Pentagon into a Triangle with Equal Area

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ABCDE is a pentagon,now please construct a triangle APQ
,and both of them must have the same area
 
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Re: change the shape of a pentagon into a triangle with equal area

Are we assuming this is a regular pentagon?
 
Re: change the shape of a pentagon into a triangle with equal area

Prove It said:
Are we assuming this is a regular pentagon?
it may not be a regular pentagon
 
Well I would be inclined to split the pentagon into three triangles, you should be able to find the area of each triangle using [tex]\displaystyle \begin{align*} \frac{1}{2}ab\sin{(C)} \end{align*}[/tex] or some other method...
 
Hope you can upload a diagram ,so we can see it clearly
,I will upload mine later
 

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