Alice found the area of the figure by breaking apart it apart where the dashed line is drawn. Her work is shown below. area of rectangle = bh = 6(2) = 12 mm2 area of triangle = …

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Alice found the area of the figure by breaking apart it apart where the dashed line is drawn. Her work is shown below. area of rectangle = bh = 6(2) = 12 mm2 area of triangle = bh = 2(2) = 4 mm2 area of figure = 12 + 4 = 16 mm2 A figure can be broken into a rectangle and triangle. The rectangle has a base of 6 millimeters and height of 2 millimeters. The triangle has a base of 2 millimeters an height of 2 millimeters. What error did Alice make? She didn’t use the correct formula for area of a triangle. She didn’t use the correct formula for area of a rectangle. She didn’t find the height of the triangle correctly. She didn’t add the areas of the triangle and rectangle correctly.