Question

Marcus loves baseball and wants to create a home plate for his house. Marcus needs to calculate the area of the home plate at the ball field so he can reconstruct it when he gets home. Calculate the area of the polygon.

Pentagon with square measuring 6 inches by 3 inches and two triangles with heights of 5 inches and 4 inches.

30 in2
31.5 in2
36.5 in2
39 in2 @StudyGurl14 @Lyrae @AriPotta @mathmath333 @texaschic101

Answer 1

can you try drawing it?

Answer 2

ok

Answer 3

@StudyGurl14

Answer 4

find the area of the rectangle first, then each of the triangles. then add them together

Answer 5

huh @AriPotta

Answer 6

see how i separated the figure into smaller areas? find the area of each smaller figure and add the areas to get the total area

Answer 7

you know the area of a rectangle is L x W and the area of a triangle is 1/2(B x H)

Answer 8

what's the area of the rectangle?

Answer 9

awnwer? @AriPotta

Answer 10

@AriPotta is showing you.

Answer 11

can you tell me what the area of that red rectangle is?

Answer 12

6

Answer 13

@AriPotta

Answer 14

no, the rectangle has a length of 6 and a width of 3. and the area of a rectangle is L x W so 6 x 3 = 18

Answer 15

can you find the area of the blue triangle?

Answer 16

L x W so 6 x 3 = 18 is the awswer? @AriPotta

Answer 17

18 is the area of just the rectangle. we still have to find tte areas of those two triangles

Answer 18

the*

Answer 19

remember the picture i posted? we found the area of the red rectangle, 18, now we wanna find the are of the blue triangle

Answer 20

area* sorry for the typos

Answer 21

so the awnswer is? @AriPotta

Answer 22

i'm not giving you the answer, it's easy to find. can you work out the area of the blue and green triangles?

Answer 23

HELP @StudyGurl14

Answer 24

5? @AriPotta

Answer 25

the blue triangle has a height of 5 and a base of 6. what's the area?

Answer 26

I DONT KNOWWWWWW

Answer 27

I'm not going to help you when you are being helped by @AriPotta

Answer 28

bye

Answer 29

the area of a triangle = 1/2(base x height)

Answer 30

wow ok

Answer 31

This is so funny to me😁. He said bye