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 8 inches by 5 inches and two triangles with heights of 7 inches and 6 inches.

72.5 in2
75.5 in2
83 in2
96 in2

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 8 inches by 5 inches and two triangles with heights of 7 inches and 6 inches.

72.5 in2
 75.5 in2
 83 in2
 96 in2

Nameless · Answer

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Nameless · Answer

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Nameless · Answer

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Timmyspu · Answer

So what is the first thing we have to do here?

jhonyy9 · Answer

Pentagon with square measuring 8 inches by 5 inches

how you understand this ? just bc. a square has equal length sides

jhonyy9 · Answer

- so what you need to use to calcule area of this posted figure

are of central ,,SQUARE" - how you is named in the text - is length time width

area triangle on the top = base  - what is 8 -  time height - what is 7 - divide 2

area triangle on the left side = base - what is 5 - time height - what is 5 - divide 2

total area - assume these 3 areas