Separate the rectangle from the triangle. The area of the rectange is <u>10m</u>. We know this because <em>l x w</em> (2m x 5m).
Now for the triangle;
The area of a triangle is <em>b x h / 2. </em>We take the full height of the figure and subtract 5 from it giving us 3 which is our height for the triangle. We then see that 2m is on the bottom and we add that 2m to the two separate 1m giving us 4m in total.
Now that we have the base and height of the triangle we plug in giving us 6m. Finally we add both the areas; 10m + 6m = <u>16m</u>.
