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What is the area of this figure?

Notice that you can divide this figure into a rectangle and a triangle.

What is the area of this figure? Notice that you can divide this figure into a rectangle-example-1
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For the rectangle do 10x15 to get 150cm squared
14-10 is 4 so triangle height is 4
Width is 5 as given
4x5 is 20 divide by two as triangle so 10cm squared
150+10=160cm squared
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