Eric Nicholas K's answer to Angeline Wong's Secondary 3 A Maths Singapore question.

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Eric Nicholas K
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Here. We use the shoelace method in the anticlockwise direction for the vertices to get a positive value even within the modulus brackets.

Other methods involving finding lengths of the rectangle are also possible.