How do you find the area of a irregular shape

You need to split up the irregular shape into shapes that you are familiar with them find the area of each piece and add it together. i'm not sure if that made sense.

To find the area of irregular shapes, the first thing to do is to divide the irregular shapeinto regular shapes that you can recognize such as triangles, rectangles, circles, squares and so forth. Then, find the area of these individual shapes and add them up!