What is a composite figure?
A figure made from two or more geometric figures (or shapes)
The formula for the area of a rectangle
What is: A = lw
A figure composed of two rectangles. Rectangle one has a base of 6 in and a height of 4 in. Rectangle two has a base of 5 in and a height of 12 in. Find the area.
What is 74 square inches
Find the area AND perimeter of this composite shape:
Area = 6 cm2
Perimeter = 15.5 cm
Name 2 attributes of a trapezoid.
4 sides
1 set of parallel sides
4 angles
4 vertices
All angles add up to 360 degrees
How do you find the area of a composite shape?
Answers may vary
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The formula for the area of a triange
What is:
A=1/2 bh OR A= (bh)/2
A figure is composed of a square and a triangle. The length of each side of the square is 4cm. The base of the triangle is 4cm and the height is 7cm. Find the area.
30 square cm
Area of a triangle with a base of 16mm and a height of 9mm?
72mm2
Solve using the distributive property:
9 (3x + 12)
27x + 108
True or false A circle is a polygon.
What is false.
The formula to find the area of a parallelogram
Marcus has room that needs paint. Each of the four walls has a length of 6 feet and a height of 9 feet. If he has enough paint to cover 220 square feet, will he have enough paint?
Ye, he will have enough!
9x6=54 ft2 is the area for each wall
54 x 4 = 216 ft2 total
Find the area AND perimeter of this shape:
Area: 78 cm2
Perimeter: 44 cmWhat is the difference between radius and diameter?
What is radius is half way across and diameter is all the way across.
True or False? A composite figure must have an even number of sides?
false
The way in which we find the area of a trapezoid
What is (base1 + base 2)/ 2 x h
Richard has a rectangular garden bed with dimensions of 4 feet by 5 1/2 feet. He wants to divide it into 2 triangular garden beds for tomatoes and marigolds. What is the area of each triangular bed?
4x5.5 = 22ft2
22 / 2 = 11 ft2
Find the area of a parallelogram with a base of 8 and a height of 8 inches.
48in2
What is the difference between circumference and area of a circle?
What is circumference is the perimeter around the circle and area is the inside of a circle.
True or False? A composite figure can have a maximum of 3 shapes.
false
The two formulas you would need to calculate the area of a rectangle and a triangle
A = lw and (bh)/2
A figure is composed of a rectangle and a triangle. The length of the rectangle and base of the triangle are both 12m. The width of the rectangle is 8m, and the height of the triangle is 4m. What is the total area?
120 square meters
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Two identical circular patterns were observed in the middle of the cornfield. If the radius of one circle is 5 meters, what is the total area of both circles, measured to the nearest square meter?
What is 157 square meters.