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Find the area of the figure

Find the area of the figure-example-1
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72 inches.

You can find this by recognizing that each triangle on the outside is 45-45-90. And that since the leg is 3, the hypotenuse must be 3sqrt(2). This means that each side of the outside is 6sqrt(2) and when squared that gives us out answer.
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