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Explain how you would find the area of the figure below

Explain how you would find the area of the figure below-example-1
User Simou
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To find the area of the figure, you would separate it into smaller pieces: square, triangles, rectangle, and semicircle.
Draw a line from P to L.
Draw a line from N to L.
Draw a line from P to H.
Draw a line from H to K.
So you should have a semicircle, a square, a rectangle, and 2 triangles.
The area for a triangle is (0.5)(b)(h).
The area for a square is x^2. x is side.
The area for a rectangle is (l)(w).
The area for a semicircle is (0.5)(πr2).
After you found the area of all the shapes, you would add them together and that’s the area of the figure.

Hope this helped!
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