Question

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

Answer 1

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Answer 2

answer choices

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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

Answer 5

24 cm2
96 cm2
112 cm2
72 cm2

Answer 6

^^ those are the answer choices

Answer 7

so what did you figure out?

Answer 8

6 triangles each with area of 4 ....

Answer 9

24

Answer 10

Good job!!

Answer 11

but thats only for the triangles what about the other shape