Question

The area of the irregular polygon is ____ square units.

Answer 1

To find the area of this shape youd have to break it up. If you broke it into the left section and the right bottom section youd get 2 rectangles and the area of a rectangle is defined as A=Length*Width. The left would be a 3*4 rectangle making its area 12 units^2 and the right would have a height of (3-2) units and a length of (7-4) units making its area 1*3 or just 3 units^2, if you add both areas you get the total area, which is 15 units^2

Answer 2

break it up into chunks: the small rectangle and the big rectangle.
subtract 7 and 4 to get the big side of the rectangle, and subtract 3 and 2 to get the small side. then find the area of the big rectangle and small rectangle to get the area of the entire rectangle. area equals 15 units^2