Question

A house shaped like an octagon has a large porch, as shown. what is the area of the house and porch?

Answer 1

875
`ft^(2)`

Explanation:

There are more than 1 way to look at this. I look at the big rectangle starting from the bottom on the graph up until the very last blue section that would not be part of the rectangle.

25 x 30 = 750

Then I looked at the very top blue part and broke that into 2 triangles and I rectangle.

The rectangle would be

20 x 5 = 100

The two triangles together would be

5 x5 = 25

750 + 100 + 25 = 875