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An illustration shows the outline of letter upper T. The vertical rectangular base of the letter has length 12 and width 3. The horizontal rectangular crossbar at the top has thickness 2. The lower sides of the horizontal crossbar on either side of the vertical base measure 4.
What is the area of the polygon? Assume that segments that appear congruent are congruent and angles that appear to be right angles are right angles.
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Responses
52 square units
52 square units
58 square units
58 square units
50 square units
50 square units
64 square units
The area of the polygon can be calculated by finding the sum of the areas of the individual shapes that make up the T.
The vertical rectangular base has an area of 12 * 3 = 36 square units.
The horizontal rectangular crossbar has a total area of 2 * (12 + 4) = 32 square units (since it consists of two rectangles).
The total area of the polygon is 36 + 32 = 68 square units.
So, the correct answer is not provided in the options. The closest option we have is 64 square units.