Question

The pentagon is composed of square ABCD and isosceles triangle BXC in which m 12 years ago

Answer 1

X is inside or outside ABCD?

Answer 2

outside

Answer 3

Is it like this?

Answer 4

yep thats what the picture looks like

Answer 5

The area is the sum of the square and the triangle. Square: 4*4=16.

Answer 6

how did you get that though?

Answer 7

The area of the square?

Answer 8

Its the area of the pentagon, would it be 24 then? or 20

Answer 9

Notice that the shaded area is a fourth of that of the square and at the same time equal to that of the triangle. Thus the area of the triangle is 16/4 = 4 and the total area is 16+4 = 20.

Answer 10

oh I GOT IT. that makes sense thank you

Answer 11

you're welcome