Answer:
240cm²
Explanation:
area of a triangle:
½ x b x h
= ½ x 6 x 4
= 3 x 4
= 12.
since there are 8 of the same triangles, they will all have the same area. so to work out the total area of a triangles, we times the area of one triangle by the 8 triangles in the polygon.
12 x 8 = 96.
for the square in the middle:
area of a square = length x width
area of a square = 12 x 12 = 144.
all we need to do is add these two totals together.
144 + 96 =240cm².
we use the units cm², because we have been multiplying xcm x ycm which can be simplified to cm² :)