Question

Question

You want to find the area of the front of a house, whose shape is a triangle on top of a rectangle with
a width of 8. The triangle's height is 7 and the rectangle's height is 10. What is the total area of the
front of the house? Do not include units in your answer.

Answer 1

108

Explanation:

if the width of the rectangle is 8, and the triangle is on the width of the rectangle, then the base of the rectangle is 8. the height is 7, so we use the formula area = height * base / 2 to find that the area of the triangular portion is 28. then, we find the area of the rectangle by doing 10 * 8(height * width) for a value of 80. the total area of the front of the house is 28 + 80: 108.