check the picture below.
so the playground is really just 3 rectangles and one triangle, now the triangle has a base of 8 and a height of 6. We can simply get the area of each figure, sum them up and that's the area of the playground.

Add the fractions together to find the portion who like basketball, soccer and football.
=1/3 + 1/8 + 5/12
need a common denominator (24)
=8/24 + 3/24 + 10/24
=21/24
simplify by 3
=7/8 like basketball, football & soccer
7/8 is the total for basketball, soccer and football. If 8/8 represents the whole class, then subtract 7/8 from 8/8 to find the number who like baseball.
=8/8 - 7/8
=1/8 of the remainder likes baseball
ANSWER: 1/8 of the students like baseball
Hope this helps! :)