How To Find The Area Of Compound Shapes

This video explains what compound / composite shapes are and how to find the area of compound shapes. Practice questions and answers are at the end of the video.

The following videos may be useful:
Area of a square/rectangle:    • Finding The Area Of A Square Or Recta...  
Area of a triangle:    • How To Find The Area Of A Triangle  
Area of a trapezium/trapezoid:    • How To Find The Area Of A Trapezium  
Area of a parallelogram:    • How To Find The Area Of A Parallelogram  

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00:00 Introduction
00:21 What is a compound shape
00:42 Examples of compound shapes
00:48 How to find the area of a compound shape
01:24 Area of compound shapes: example one
02:15 Area of compound shapes: example two
03:27 Area of compound shapes: practice questions and answers







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