Question

Find the area of the combined rectangles.10 ft8 ft17 ft8 ft9 ft2 ftThe area issquare feet.

Answer 1

Notice that we can divide the figure in two rectangles with the following measures:

Calculating both areas, we get:

$\begin{gathered} A_1=8\cdot10=80ft^2 \\ A_2=9\cdot2=18ft^2_{} \end{gathered}$

then, adding these two areas, we get the following:

$A=A_1+A_2=80+18=98ft^2$

therefore, the area is 98ft^2