Find the area of the following figure. explain or show how you got your answer.

All you have to to is break up the shape into 3 parts 

the rectangle, the big triangle, and the small triangle 

to get the area of a rectangle its Base times height

to get the area of a triangle it's one half (1/2 or 0.5) base times height

hope this helped a little 

15 + 5.5= 20.5

I took the area of both triangles at the top and they add up to 5.5 together and then added that to the area of the square which came to 15.

Do the math. she originally had 50 dollars on her gift card and she had 12 dollars left on her gift card after she finished her shopping spree. if you subtract 50 minus 12 you get thirty eight dollars as your answer. so therefore, ciara spent 38 dollars total o