Question

What is the area of this figure?

13 mi
5 mi
8 mi
6 mi
3 mi
7 mi
square miles

Answer 1

The answer is 86 square miles

Explanation:

First of all you can seperate this shape into shapes that you already know how to solve. Then the rest is easy...You can see how I solved it in more detail by looking at the image below. I hoped it was helpful!

Answer 2

86 square miles

Explanation:

To answer this question you have to separate the shape into smaller ones. In this case, you can separate the shape into one larger rectangle on top and one smaller rectangle on bottom.

Area of large rectangle on top:

13 miles x 5 miles = 65 square miles

Area of smaller rectangle on bottom:

3 miles x 7 miles = 21 square miles

65 + 21 = 86 square miles