Question

HELP PLEASE!!What method can you use to find the area of the composite figure. Check ALL that apply.

Answer 1

Answer:

C

Step-by-step explanation:

The reason we can use this method is because we are given a composite figure with a house shape with one triangle on top. We can use the guidance of the dotted lines to make out that a rectangle can be used to find the figure. We can see that apart from the figure, there are two congruent triangles. To find the area we would do -

First find the missing height of the smaller triangles. We would use the pythagorean theorem to find that the missing height is√5

We could do 8(4) = 32 to find the area of the rectangle.

Then, we could do 2√5/2 to find one missing triangle. We could then add the triangles to find the measures of the combined triangles as 2√5. Then, we could do 32 - 2√5 to find the area as 27.5.

Hope this helps :)