Determining Hacker's Area of Land
From Cyberchase
00:00 - 02:20
2m 20s

The Cybersquad presents Hacker's and Judge Trudy's plots of land to the court. They illustrate how the two plots of land have the same area despite Hacker's being an irregular shape.

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