What is the area of the composite figure in square units, and in the picture above? It shows a square but half‘s of the side at the bottom is longer than the other, and it says that one part of the bottom part is to the other part of the bottom is three the left side is five and the right side is four
Without knowing the specific measurements of the sides, it is difficult to get an exact area.
However, we can find an approximate area by breaking the composite figure into two pieces - a rectangle and a right triangle.
The rectangle has a length of 5 units (equal to the left side) and a width of half the side length plus half the other half. Since one part of the bottom is three and the other is four, their sum is 7. Dividing by 2 gives us a width of 3.5 units.
Therefore, the area of the rectangle is 5 x 3.5 = 17.5 square units.
The right triangle has a base of 0.5 units (half the difference between the two halves of the bottom) and a height of 5 units. Therefore, the area of the triangle is (0.5 x 5) / 2 = 1.25 square units.
Adding the area of the rectangle and the triangle together gives us an approximate total area of 18.75 square units.