Question

Each square in the grid is a unit square with an area of 1 square unit.

What is the area of the figure?
square units

Answer 1

6 square units

Explanation:

Simply count the number of squares:

There are 4 squares aligned in a vertical column, and one to the right of that column (so up to this point you have 5 full squares). Then notice that you have two half squares in the shape of triangles. So two halves give us another full square. That totals 6 square units.