Jerry, a middle school student, addicts himself to mathematical research. Maybe the problems he has thought are really too easy to an expert. But as an amateur, especially as a 15-year-old boy, he had done very well. He is so rolling in thinking the mathematical problem that he is easily to try to solve every problem he met in a mathematical way. One day, he found a piece of paper on the desk. His younger sister, Mary, a four-year-old girl, had drawn some lines. But those lines formed a special kind of concave polygon by accident as Fig. 1 shows.
<tex2html_verbatim_mark>
Fig. 1 The lines his sister had drawn
``Great!" he thought, ``The polygon seems so regular. I had just learned how to calculate the area of triangle, rectangle and circle. I‘m sure I can find out how to calculate the area of this figure." And so he did. First of all, he marked the vertexes in the polygon with their coordinates as Fig. 2 shows. And then he found the result-0.75 effortless.
<tex2html_verbatim_mark>
Fig.2 The polygon with the coordinates of vertexes
Of course, he was not satisfied with the solution of such an easy problem. ``Mmm, if there‘s a random polygon on the paper, then how can I calculate the area?" he asked himself. Till then, he hadn‘t found out the general rules on calculating the area of a random polygon. He clearly knew that the answer to this question is out of his competence. So he asked you, an erudite expert, to offer him help. The kind behavior would be highly appreciated by him.