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Star shapes vary greatly. It's probably best to divide the shape into triangles (or other figures you can find the area of) and deal with those. For symmetric five-pointed stars, the area of a star can be approximated within .024% by taking the distance between two consecutive points, squaring it, and multiplying it by the fraction 13/16.

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