Question

You want to find the area of the front of a house, whose shape is a triangle on top of a rectangle with a width of 12. The triangle's height is 14 and the rectangle's height is 5. What is the total area of the front of the house?

Answer 1

There are two shapes

rectangle and triangle

Rectangle area = Length × breadth

Triangle area = ( 1 / 2 ) × height × base

L = 12

W = 5

Area = 60

Height = 14

base = width of rectangle

base = 12

( 1 / 2 ) ( 12 ) ( 14 )

( 14 ) ( 6 )

84

Total area = 60 + 84

= 144

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