Question

What is the area of this figure?

Answer 1

The bottom square portion would be 10 x 10 = 100 square inches.

The area of the triangle would be 1/2 x base x height.

The base is 10 - 6 = 4 inches.

The height is 16 -10 = 6 inches.

Area = 1/2 x 4 x 6 = 12 square inches.

Total area = 100 + 12 = 112 square inches.

Answer 2

check the picture below.

so we really have a 10x10 square and a triangle whose height is 6 and whose base is 4.

$\bf \stackrel{\textit{area of the square}}{(10\cdot 10)}~~+~~\stackrel{\textit{area of the triangle}}{\cfrac{1}{2}(4)(6)}\implies 100+12\implies 112$