In this ACT Math video, we delve into Geometry and cover compound figures, which are also called composite figures. Compound figures are figures that when cut are made up of common shapes such as squares, rectangles, circles, triangles and trapezoids.
When the ACT test gives problems like this, you will usually need to find unknown sides of the figure before you can proceed to find the area. For this ACT Math example, we find missing sides of the compound figure, and then show four different ways to get the area.
The example used in the video will be based off the following ACT math problem below:
Click here to see the problem.
This is the practice exercise we will work out in the video:
This practice problem is considered a MEDIUM difficulty problem.