Question

What is the area of the figure below?
8 cm
7 cm
4 cm
3 cm

Answer 1

Check the picture below.

so the figure is really just one square, one rectangle and one triangle, so

`\stackrel{ \textit{\LARGE Areas} }{\stackrel{ triangle }{\cfrac{1}{2}(\underset{b}{3})(\underset{h}{5})}~~ + ~~\stackrel{ rectangle }{(8)(4)}~~ + ~~\stackrel{ square }{(3)(3)}}\implies 7.5+32+9\implies \text{\LARGE 48.5}~cm^2`