Question

A tile installer plots an irregular shape on grid paper. Each square on the grid represents 1 square

centimeter. What is the area of the irregular shape?
The area of the irregular shape is

Answer 1

area of a triangle = 0.5 X base X height

0.5 X 4 X 4 = 8 cm^

area of a rectangle l X w

3 X 5 = 15 cm^

area of a parallelogram = base X height

5 X 3 = 15 cm^

add totals together

15 + 15 + 8 = 38 cm^