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The very fist kites were probably made for fun, as playthings, and the invention may well have been accidental. But the skill of making kites must then have been considered as a magic power and reserved to for divinatory and religious practices.
However there are many utilitarian early uses or the kite: for fishing, allowing to send the bait at a long distance, for sensing the wind direction and strength, therefore as an early meteorological device, for towing canoes, for scaring the ennemies or sending messages inside besieged fortresses in wartimes...
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How do you figure out the area of a kite?
The formula for the area of a kite is 1/2 * d1 * d2. d1 is the first diagonal, and d2 is the second diagonal.
What is a quadrilateral with two pair of adjacent sides congruent but not four congruent sides?
A kite or arrowhead.A kite or arrowhead.A kite or arrowhead.A kite or arrowhead.
How many right angles do a kite have?
A kite has 4 right angles (all angles of the kite are right angles), since the kite is parallel. If the kite was cyclic, then 2 right angles. And if normal kite, then 0 right angles.
What makes a kite a quadrilateral?
A quadrilateral has four sides. A kite has four sides. Therefore, a kite is a quadrilateral.
What are the parts of a kite?
a cross bar a bow a kite
