Question

Find the area of the following shape

Answer 1

first do you know what shape that is

Answer 2

its a pentagon

Answer 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCzRXrEpG4g

Answer 4

do you know how to find the area of a triangle?

Answer 5

base times height

Answer 6

A = 1/2 × b × h.

you would separate this into two triangles and the add the two areas together.

Answer 7

okay, how would i do that

Answer 8

so the first one would be, the dib triangle to the left, count the units and find the base and height.

Answer 9

and plug in, A=1/2 X __ X __. and fill in your formula.

Answer 10

how do i find the height

Answer 11

@supie

Answer 12

find the center of the triangle, and count how many units it is tall,

Answer 13

the height is A 1/2 × b × h.

Answer 14

its A

Answer 15

so there are two triangles

on the left part a great triangle with base length 4 units and height 4 units

use these to calcule area

and on the right part there is a small triangle with base length 2 units and height length 2 units

use these to calcule area

to get area of this shape just you need adding these two areas

hope helped understandably easy