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What is the area of this figure?

What is the area of this figure?-example-1
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The are of the figure is 119 cm^2

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Answer:

119 cm²

Explanation:

The area of a composite shape can be found by dividing it into shapes whose area formulas you know.

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Here, the shape can be divided into 3 rectangles by extending the vertical lines through the figure. Left to right, those rectangles are ...

2 wide × 17 hign ⇒ area = (2 cm)(17 cm) = 34 cm²

10 wide × 7 high ⇒ area = (10 cm)(7 cm) = 70 cm²

5 wide × 3 high ⇒ area = (5 cm)(3 cm) = 15 cm²

Then the total area is ...

(34 +70 +15) cm² = 119 cm²

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