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On a baseball field, home plate is where the batter stands to hit and where a runner scores a run.A diagram of a baseball home plate composed of a rectangle and an isosceles triangles. The length of the rectangle is labeled seventeen inches. The width is labeled eight and five tenths inches. The height of the triangle is labeled eight and five tenths inches. The base of the triangle is the same as the length of the rectangle.What is the area of the home plate diagram shown in square inches?

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The area of the home plate diagram is of 216.75 in².

Area of the home plate

The home plate is composed by these two figures:

  • A rectangle of dimensions 17 in and 8.5 in.
  • A triangle of base 17 in and height 8.5 in..

The area of the rectangle is given by the multiplication of it's dimensions, hence it is calculated as follows:

Area of rectangle = 17 x 8.5 = 144.5 in².

The area of the triangle is given by half the multiplication of the base and of the height, hence:

Area of triangle = 0.5 x 17 x 8.5 = 72.25 in².

The area of the home plate is calculated as the sum of the area of the rectangle and of the area of the triangle, hence:

Area of home plate = Area of rectangle + Area of triangle = 144.5 + 72.25 = 216.75 in².

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