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Can anyone please teach me how to do this

Can anyone please teach me how to do this-example-1
User Dreaded Harvester
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Answer:

I will not give in answer but will give an example

Explanation:

The area of irregular shapes can be determined by dividing the given shape into smaller regular shapes. The area of irregular shapes can be determined by dividing the given shape into smaller regular shapes.

In real life figures are often irregular shapes - a little bit messy. Think of your messy bedroom once more ‐ is it a perfect rectangle?

The trick is to break these figures into shapes that you know well and whose area you know how to find.

1. Find the area of this room:

3- 2 -4 -6 irregular shape

This can be done in two different ways but ill only give one example on how to find an area.

Method #1

Divide the figure into two rectangles and find all missing lengths.

The larger rectangle has an area of

4cm x 7cm = 28cm2

The smaller rectangle has an area of

4cm x 2cm = 8cm2

If we combine these we will find the total area:

28cm2 x 8cm2 = 36cm2

hope this helps :)

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