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What is a Composite Figure?
Definition: What is a composite figure?
Summary
- The top part of this figure is a rectangle!
- The middle part is also a rectangle
- The bottom part is a triangle
- The areas of all the shapes inside a composite figure will add up to the area of that composite figure!
- You can represent the same composite shape with triangles and rectangles, or parallelograms!

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