Question

in two to three sentences explain why this is the correct answer like a twelve year old

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An illustration shows the outline of letter upper H. The two vertical sides of the outline letter upper H have length 12 and width 3. The horizontal part across the middle has length 5. The inner side of the upper vertical part of the H has length 5. The inner side of the lower vertical part has length 6.

What is the area of the polygon?

77 square units

Answer 1

[AI-generated answer — Bot GPT 3.5]

The area of the polygon is 77 square units because you can break the H shape into three rectangles. The two vertical rectangles have areas of 12 x 3 = 36 and 6 x 3 = 18. The horizontal rectangle has an area of 5 x 5 = 25. When you add them together, you get 36 + 18 + 25 = 77 square units.