What is the area of this figure? enter your answer in the box. cm² a square with side lengths of 5 cm. a triangle attached to one side is split down the middle to reveal a long leg length of 4 cm.

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EXPLANATION

The figure described in the question is the one in the attachment.

The area of the square portion is


where is the length of the sides of the square.

This implies the area of the square portion is





The area of the triangular portion is



The base of the triangle is 5 units and the heigh is 4 units.

This implies that, area of the triangle is





Putting the two areas together, we obtain,

Area of figure to be