Find the area of the figure below by first finding the areas of the rectangle and triangles. Area of the rectangle: | square units Area of the triangle on the top: 6 square units Area of the triangle on the bottom: 6 square units Area of the figure: square units

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16.1

hope you got it chief.

using the formula for pythagorean theorem (a2+b2=c2)(the twos are exponents), and knowing that you have b squared and c squared, just reverse it. 26 squared minus 10 squared equals c squared. 26 squared is 676 and 10 squared is 100. you get 576, then use your square roots to undo the squared numbers to get 24.