Answer:
The area of the full figure is 60 square inches.
Step-by-step explanation:
There are 4 triangles and one square in this figure. We can start by figuring out the area of the middle square, which would be [tex]6*6=36[/tex] because we know the sides are all 6 inches.
Next, we can look at the triangles and see that their hypotenuses (the longest sides) are all the same length, that being 5 inches. This means that we only need to find the length of the third side and then multiply the area of one triangle by 4 to get the area of all the triangles.
The pythagorean theorem states that in any right triangle, [tex]a^2 +b^2=c^2[/tex], with [tex]c^2[/tex] being the length of the hypotenuse. Since we know the length of the hypotenuse is 5 and one of the legs of the triangle is 4, we can insert this into the equation: [tex]a^2+4^2=5^2[/tex], which when simplified all the way gives us that [tex]a=3[/tex].
Since a right triangle is half of a rectangle, the easiest way to find the area of the triangle is to multiply the measures of the two legs together and then divide by two: [tex](3*4)/2=6[/tex]. Therefore, we know that each triangle in the picture has an area of 6.
Finally, you need to add all of the areas together to find the area of the full figure: [tex]36+6+6+6+6=60 in^2[/tex]
The area of the full figure is 60 square inches.
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