Answer:
= 37 cm^2
Step-by-step explanation:
To find the area of the figure, we will split it into 2 separate shapes.
We have a long skinny rectangle and a shorter wider rectangle.
The long skinny rectangle is 15 cm by 2 cm
The area is given by
A = l*w
A = 15*2 = 20 cm^2
The shorter wider rectangle is 7 cm by (3-2) cm or 7 cm by 1 cm
The side length of the bottom rectangle is found by subtracting the length of the skinny rectangle from the total side length.
( The drawing is not to scale)
The area is given by
A = l*w
A = 7 * 1 = 7 cm^2
To find the area of the figure, we add up the area of the two rectangles
A total figure = rectangle 1 + rectangle 2
= 30 + 7
= 37 cm^2
