Question

Marcus loves baseball and wants to create a home plate for his house. Marcus needs to calculate the area of the home plate at the ball field so he can reconstruct it when he gets home. Calculate the area of the polygon.

72.5 in2
75.5 in2
83 in2
96 in2

Answer 1

top triangle area: 7×8 /2 -> 56/2= 28
right triangle area: 6×5 /2 -> 30/2= 15
rectangle area: 5×8 -> 40
40+28+15
68+15
83 in^2