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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by shaded areas For some reason

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these tend to be really big hangout spots for trees

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while the area in square inches of the shaded regions

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where the two rectangles over laugh is what All right

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so this question wants us to find the area of

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the shaded area We generally don't venture into such shady

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areas but we're going to make an exception All right

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Well the area of a rectangle is length times type

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till you get the area Don't need to figure out

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those two measurements of our mystery shape Well how do

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we do that We'll look over The information were given

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We can see the upper big rectangle is eight inches

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long and that bottom segment is only five inches long

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Since the rest of that measurement is the length of

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our shaded area we can just take eight months Five

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to get three inches Okay Halfway there onto the height

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we knew the same thing The upper rectangle is six

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inches tall minus the poor inches of this segment And

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we now know the height of our shaded rectangle is

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two inches Take three inches time Two inches and we

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get six square inches Got it That's Our answer Now

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that we know the dimensions of a rectangle it seems 00:01:08.94 --> [endTime] well a little less shady

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