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What is the area of the pentagon shown?

What is the area of the pentagon shown?-example-1
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Answer:

354

Explanation:

User Aditya Mathur
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Answer:

The area of the pentagon is: 354

Explanation:

First draw two auxillery lines in the upper left hand corner to make a rectangle, and a right triangle.

Now that we have a rectangle we can find its area:

18·20=360

To find the lengths of the triangle sides:

20-16=4

18-15=3

Area of a right triangle formula: (leg a · leg b)/2

3·4=12 12/2=6

Now subtract the area of the triangle from the rectangle:

360-6=354

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