Answer is 40 square feet.
How?
First, I found the area of the rectangle.
8 • 3 = 24
Then I found the area of a triangle.
Which is b • h / 2
2 • 8 / 2
16 / 2
8
And since there’s 2 triangles I added them together to get 16.
Then I added 24 and 16 and got 40.