so, notice, the composite is just a 4x6 rectangle, and a triangle whose base is 6 and altitude is 2. So, we can simply get the area of each figure and sum them up.
[tex]\bf \stackrel{\textit{area of rectangle}}{(4\cdot 6)}~~~~+~~~~\stackrel{\textit{area of triangle}}{\cfrac{1}{2}(6)(2)}[/tex]