Question

What is the area of the firgure?

Answer 1

Area is measured in "square" units. The area of a figure is the number of squares required to cover it completely, like tiles on a floor. Area of a square = side times side. Since each side of a square is the same, it can simply be the length of one side squared.

Explanation:

Answer 2

252 in^2

Explanation:

First break down the figure into composite shapes so you can use basic formula like (l)(w). Once you do that you should get 4 rectangles: (9)(15), (3)(4), (4)(9) and (3)(15). You take 3 away from the 12 because if you did (12)(15) you'd count a portion of the shape twice.

Once you find all the areas, add them to get 252 in^2