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. Pentagon with square measuring 8 inches by 5 inches and two triangles with heights of 7 inches and 6 inches.

72.5 in2

75.5 in2

83 in2

96 in2

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21 October, 18:49

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The area of a rectangle is base times height and the area of a triangle is (1/2) base times height. Add this: 5*8 + (1/2) * 8 * 7 + (1/2) * 5 * 6 =