We shall prove that the area of a cyclic quadrilateral
with sides is given by
where
Area of the cyclic quadrilateral = Area of Area of
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But since is a cyclic quadrilateral, Hence Therefore area now is
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Applying cosines law for and and equating the expressions for side we have
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Substituting (since angles and are suppplementary) and rearranging, we have
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substituting this in the equation for area,
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which is of the form and hence can be written in the form as
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Introducing
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Taking square root, we get
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