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What is the area of the figure?

What is the area of the figure?-example-1

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Answer:

80 square feet

Explanation:

You can split it into a rectangle and a triangle. The area of the rectangle would be 2 * 16 = 32 square feet.

Next, you need to find the height of the triangle. To do this, you can split the triangle into two right triangles and use the pythagorean theorem to find the height. The dimensions of one of the right triangle is 8 for one of the legs and 10 for the hypotenuse. Using the pythagorean theorem, 8^2 + b^2 = 10^2, which is 64 + b^2 = 100, so b^2 = 36 and b = 6. This means that the height is 6. Now, you find the area of the triangle and you get 16 * 6 / 2 = 48.

Adding the area of the rectangle and the triangle: 32 + 48 = 80

Not sure why that's not an answer choice, I'm fairly confident it's right.

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