Areas Of Compound Shapes

This lesson covers:

  1. How to find the area of compound shapes (complicated shapes made up of multiple other shapes)

What is the area of the shape below?

(Shape not drawn accurately)

Diagram of an L-shaped compound figure with dimensions 9 cm, 6 cm, 2 cm, and 10 cm.
48

cm2

cm2

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1

What is the area of the shape below?

(Shape not drawn accurately)

Diagram of a compound shape with dimensions 8m, 4m, 5m, and 7m.
44

m2

m2

0

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1

What is the area of the shape below?

(Shape not drawn accurately)

Diagram of a T-shaped compound area with dimensions 20m by 5m and 4m by 2.5m.
180

m2

m2

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1

What is the area of the shape below?

(Shape not drawn accurately)

Diagram of a compound shape with labelled dimensions of 2 cm, 3 cm, 5 cm, and 6 cm.
27

cm2

cm2

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1

What is the area of the shape below?

(Shape not drawn accurately)

Diagram showing a compound shape with dimensions labeled as 8cm, 10cm, 6cm, and 4cm.
56

cm2

cm2

0

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1

What is the area of the shape below?

(Shape not accurately drawn)

Diagram of a compound shape with dimensions labeled 3cm, 4cm, and 6cm.
33

cm2

cm2

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1

What is the area of the darker-shaded region of the shape below?

(Shape not accurately drawn)

Diagram showing a compound shape with a darker-shaded region, including dimensions of 6 cm by 5 cm and an inner rectangle of 4 cm by 1 cm.
26

cm2

cm2

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1

What is the area of the shape below?

Diagram showing a compound shape with dimensions 12 cm by 4 cm and a triangular section with a height of 7 cm and base of 6 cm.
69

cm2

cm2

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