Question

What is the area of the figure?



A.
360 km²

B.
432 km²

C.
720 km²

D.
864 km²

Answer 1

is there a picture

Answer 2

ya one min

Answer 3

there you go

Answer 4

ok

Answer 5

First, you need to find the length of this line.

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How do you think we should do that?

Answer 6

subtract 36 from something

Answer 7

Yep, so you'll want to subtract something from 36. You'll need to subtract the amount across from 36.

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Answer 8

so the amount across from 36 is 24 so 36-24=12 i think

Answer 9

Yep, you got it. So now we need to find the area of the two separate figures.

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Answer 10

Let's do the triangle first. The area formula of a triangle is \[V=\frac{ B \times H }{ 2 }\]B is the base and H is the height. So plug in the numbers of the sides to the triangle and multiply.