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Bounded Area (Posted on 2004-12-01)

A region of the plane is defined by:
|y-2x| + |y+2x| + |y-3| ≤ 9

What is the area of this region?

Submitted by SilverKnight

Rating: 2.5000 (8 votes)

Solution: (Hide)

The region is the polygon with corners (-2, 4), (2, 4), (9/4, 3), (1, -2), (-1, -2), and (-9/4, 3)
The area of this polygon is 20.5

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Subject	Author	Date
answer	K Sengupta	2007-11-24 05:49:13
No Subject	sherly	2005-05-09 20:49:54
Solution (Using Excel)	Erik O.	2004-12-01 20:25:25
solution	Charlie	2004-12-01 20:17:26

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