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Another Look! Practice 6-6
How can you find the area of the irregular Apply Properties:
shape below? Area of Irregular
You can count unit
Shapes
squares, or divide the shape
into rectangles.

Place the shape on grid paper. Then you You can divide the shape into rectangles.
can count unit squares. Find the area of each rectangle. Then add
4 in. the areas.
2 in. 4 in.
​A: 5 × 4 = 20
5 in. 2 in.
3 in. 5 in. A
B: 3 × 2 = 6​
B 3 in. ​20 + 6 = 26​
6 in.
6 in.
The area of the irregular shape is
26 square inches. The area of the irregular shape is
26 square inches.

In 1–4, find the area of each irregular shape. Use grid paper to help.

1. 2 in. 2. 3 ft
2 in.
2 ft
6 in. 2 in. 2 ft 2 ft

5 in. 1 ft

3. 5 cm 4. 5 cm

3 cm 3 cm

2 cm 2 cm 2 cm

4 cm 1 cm 1 cm

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 5. Reasoning Tony made this diagram of his Vegetable Garden
vegetable garden. What is the total area? 10 ft
Explain your reasoning.

14 ft
8 ft

4 ft 4 ft

6. enVision® STEM Mr. Thomson wants to 7. Number Sense Hadori made this solid
protect his garage by installing a flood figure by paper folding. What is the name
barrier. He connects 2 barriers side by of the figure she made? How many faces,
side. Each barrier is 9 feet long by 2 feet edges, and vertices does it have?
high. What is the combined area of
the barriers?

8. Higher Order Thinking Jordan made this

4 cm
design from three pieces of square-shaped
cloth. What is the total area of the design
6 cm
Jordan made? Explain how you found
your answer.
8 cm

Assessment Practice
9. Daniel drew the figure at the right. Draw lines 15 cm
to show how you can divide the figure to find
the area. Then select the correct area for the 5 cm
figure at the right.
5 cm
𝖠 25 square centimeters 5 cm

𝖡 50 square centimeters
5 cm
𝖢 75 square centimeters
𝖣 100 square centimeters
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