All of the triangles in the figure below are congruent. What is the area of the figure? Note that all measurements are in centimeters.

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anonymous · Answer

anonymous · Answer

answer choices

mertsj · Answer

If they are all congruent, they all have base 4 and height 2 so the area is 1/2(2)(4)=4 and there are 6 of them.

mertsj · Answer

So can you figure out the total area of all 6?

anonymous · Answer

24 cm2
		96 cm2
		112 cm2
		72 cm2

anonymous · Answer

^^ those are the answer choices

mertsj · Answer

so what did you figure out?

dumbcow · Answer

6 triangles each with area of 4 ....

anonymous · Answer

24

mertsj · Answer

Good job!!

anonymous · Answer

but thats only for the triangles what about the other shape