Answer:
Step-by-step explanation: Need to work out your scale factor which is 1.5.
8 * 1.5 = 12
CE = 12
12 * 9 = 108/2 = 59 that is the area of triangle ACE
8 * 6 = 48/2 = 24 that is the area of triangle BCD
ACE - BCD = ABDE
59 - 24 = 35cm^2
The idea being, we first, move the repeating part to the left of the decimal point, by simply multiplying it by a power of 10, in this case, we need to move 318, so we need then 1000, 3 decimals, 3 zeros.
and we'll make the expression a variable, so let's do so first,