What is the area of the pentagon shown below?
Consider the hexagon below:
What is the area of the hexagon?
Gary wants to make a sign from poster board in the shape of the kite shown below.
How much poster board does he need to make the sign?
In baseball, home plate is a pentagon.
What is the area of home plate?
The Martins plan to add a rectangular pool to their backyard. Mr. Martin wants the pool to have a 4 foot deck around it. Mrs. Martin thinks the deck should be 8 feet wide. Refer to the diagram below:
How would the area of the deck change if it is increased from 4 feet wide to 8 feet wide?
The students in an art class at a middle school make a giant paper L. The figure is shown below.
What is the area of the L?
A parallelogram is decomposed into a rectangle and two triangles as shown below:
What is the area of the parallelogram?
Arthur's garden is the shape below.
What is the area of the garden?
What is the area of the gray triangle shown below?
A rectangle measures 3 inches by 4 inches. If the lengths of each side double, what is the effect on the area? Describe visually and/or verbally how you arrived at your answer.