Question

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What is the area of this polygon? 28.5 units² 34.5 units² 37.5 units² 40.5 units² 6 sided polygon on a coordinate plane with vertices at (negative 6, negative 2), (negative 5, 1), (negative 1, 4), (1, 1), (5, 3), and (1, negative 2)

Answer 1

Answer: 34.5

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Answer 2

Break the shape up into 4 different shapes, 3 triangles and a rectangle.

Area of a triangle is 1/2 x base x height.

Area of rectangle is length x width.

Calculate the area for the 4 shapes and then add them together.

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