Question

On a bicycle trail, the city is painting arrows like the one shown below: Upper pointing arrow with height of 11 and length of 9. Rectangular base of arrow has length of 7 and height of 8. All units are in centimeters. Calculate the area of the arrow by decomposing it into rectangles and triangles. (4 points)

Answer 1

The image of the arrow is missing, so i have attached it.

Answer:

A_t = 69.5 cm²

Explanation:

In a second image attached, I have divided the arrow into triangle and rectangle.

From the second image,

A1 is area of triangle while A2 is area of rectangle

Area of triangle is; A1 = ½bh

Our triangle base is given as 9 cm.

To get the height, we will subtract the rectangle height of 8 cm from the total arrow height.

Thus; height of triangle; h = 11 - 8 = 3cm

Thus;

A1 = ½ × 9 × 3

A1 = 13.5 cm²

Formula for area of rectangle is;

A2 = length × breadth

A2 = 8 × 7

A2 = 56 cm²

Thus, total area of arrow is;

A_t = A1 + A2 = 13.5 + 56

A_t = 69.5 cm²