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.

50 in2
59 in2
85 in2
90 in2

Answer 1

Answer: choice B) 59 square inches

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Work Shown:


A1 = Area of rectangle = length*width = 7*4 = 28 square inches
A2 = Area of triangle on top = 0.5*base*height = 0.5*7*6 = 21 square inches
A3 = Area of triangle on right side = 0.5*base*height = 0.5*4*5 = 10 square inches


Total Area = A1 + A2 + A3
Total Area = 28 + 21 + 10
Total Area = 59 square inches