Question

Find the area of the complex figure

Answer 1

Yea, can someone actually help?

Answer 2

Let's try the idea of (area of the blue rectangle) minus (area of the red rectangle)
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Answer 3

@jigglypuff314 has a much better way to do it

the slower way I took was to break the figure into 3 rectangles (see attached), find the area of each piece, then add up the 3 smaller areas to get the overall area

but either method works