Marcus loves baseball and wants to create a home plate for his house. Marcus needs to calculate the area of the home plate at the ball field so he can reconstruct it when he gets home. Calculate the area of the polygon.
I don't need extra vote's but here's your answer....
You can caluclate the area buy didviding the polygon in to far more simpler shapes and it end's up being two triangles and a rectangle using the formula to find the area of the triangles base time's height divide by two and the formula for a rectangle length times with we end up coming with the answers 28 + 15 + 40 = 83 sq inches.