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I don’t know how to do this please help

I don’t know how to do this please help-example-1

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Answer:

84 cm²

Explanation:

The figure has a uniform horizontal cross section, so its area is the product of that cross section length and its vertical dimension.

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A = bh

A = (6 cm)(14 cm) = 84 cm²

The area of the shape is 84 square centimeters.

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Additional comment

You could decompose the figure into a rectangle with base 6 and height 8, and a parallelogram with base 6 and height 14-8=6. The area formula is the same for each: A = bh, so the area of the composite figure is ...

A = 6×8 +6×(14 -8)

= 6×(8 +(14 -8))

= 6×14 . . . . same as above.

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