Question

Figure 12.14 shows the floor plan for a long one story house. Calculate the area of the floor of the house, explain your reasoning

Answer 1

We have the following:

Now we are going to calculate the area of each square and then we add each block and thus we calculate the total area:

$\begin{gathered} S_1=40\cdot40=1600 \\ S_2=16\cdot24=384 \\ S_3=16\cdot40=640 \end{gathered}$

Therefore:

$\begin{gathered} S_T=S_1+S_2+S_3=1600+384+640 \\ S_T=2624 \end{gathered}$

The answer is 2624 square foot