HELP The square in the middle has an area of 1 square unit. What is the area of the entire rectangle in square units? Explain your reasoning.

  4 square units

Step-by-step explanation:

If you draw a vertical line down the middle of the square, you divide it into two triangles that are congruent to the smaller triangles shown in the figure. Hence each of those triangles has an area of 1/2 square unit.

After you have divided the square as above, you see that two smaller triangles are identical in area to the larger triangles. So, each of those has an area of 2(1/2) = 1 square unit.

Then the total of areas is ...

  2 small triangles + square + 2 large triangles = 2(1/2) + 1 + 2(1) = 4

The area of the rectangle is 4 square units.

step-by-step explanation:

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step-by-step explanation:

i think something is missing in your question because y-1=(x-12) would not pass through the point (-4,-3). because if you replace x by -4 your are supposed to find y=-3 which is not the case her. if you replace x by -4 you find =-15.

i assume the right equation is y-1=1/4*(x-12) because this one is passing through both your points (if you are interested to know how i found that out i can tell you).

in this equation if i replace x by -4 i find y=-3 and if i replace x by 12, i find y=1 so the line representing this equation is passing through those 2 points.

then the standard form of the equation is finding an expression of y in function of x

y-1=1/4*(x-12)

y=x/4-3+1

y=x/4-2

hope that .

do you confirm there was a mistake in the question?