Question

You want to find the area of the front of a house, whose shape is a triangle on top of a rectangle with a width of 10. The triangle's height is 11 and the rectangle's height is 6. What is the total area of the front of the house?

Answer 1

answer is 160

Explanation:

Answer 2

rectangle area is l*w or 10*6=60
triangles area is one half base times height our ½*10*11=55

area of the front of the house is then 115