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Posted by Reed Schwimmer on February 29th, 2004 12:59 PM
In reply to How do you measure sq.ft. in a room that's not square? by Mike on February 29th, 2004 12:13 PM [Go to top of thread]

From your description, it seems that the room is a triangle (forget the lack of a third corner due to the doorway). In which case, the area is equal to 1/2 base x height. In this case, the base can be the 12 ft measurement. The height is the measurement from the doorway to the far wall, I'm assuming that this line will be perpendicular to the fall wall. So then the area is (0.5 x 12) x height.

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