Am i finding the area of this wierd shape correctly if not what am i doing wrong?

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Step-by-step explanation:

Sadly, you are doing this incorrectly.

The easiest way to find the area of this shape is to separate it into a square and a triangle.

This will leave you with a square with the dimentions 2x2 a triangle with a base of 4 and a height of 2.

The area of the square is 4

Using the equation for the area of a triangle

We can plug in our 2 know values to get

Now we can take the sum of the areas of these two shapes to get a total area of 8

answer: c.  

step-by-step explanation:

mixtures containing substances that get attracted to magnet can be separated using a magnet. we can separate iron from a mixture of sand and iron, as only iron attracts to the magnet.