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What is a Composite Figure?

Definition: What is a composite figure?

Summary

  1. The top part of this figure is a rectangle!
  2. The middle part is also a rectangle
  3. The bottom part is a triangle
  4. The areas of all the shapes inside a composite figure will add up to the area of that composite figure!
  5. You can represent the same composite shape with triangles and rectangles, or parallelograms!

Notes

    1. We can see two rectangles and a triangle!
    1. This second figure can be made up of three triangles and a rectangles
    1. You could represent the second figure with just two parallelograms!