Question

What is the area of the figure

Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

So you want to start by finding the area of the big square.

We know the width of the big square is 60cm. The length of the big square is

19

+

24

+

13

=

56

Big square

A

r

e

a

=

L

⋅

W

=

56

⋅

60

=

3360

Now let’s find the little square inside the bigger square. We see from the picture that the width is 34 and the length is 24cm. Using the same formula, we can find the area of the little square.

Little square

A

r

e

a

=

L

⋅

W

=

24

⋅

34

=

816

The area is enclosed in the area of the big square minus the area of the little square.

3360

−

816

=

2544

So the area enclosed is

2544

c

m

2

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