To find the area of the figure, we first need to find the area of the large rectangle and then subtract the area of the smaller rectangle that is missing.
The area of the large rectangle can be found by multiplying the length and width: 6 * 8 = 48 square units.
The smaller rectangle that is missing has a width of 2 units. To find the length, we need to subtract the missing width from the total length of the left side of the polygon. The total length of the left side is 6 units. The missing width is 2 units. So the length of the smaller rectangle is 6 - 2 = 4 units.
The area of the smaller rectangle is then found by multiplying the length and width: 4 * 2 = 8 square units.
To find the area of the figure, we subtract the area of the smaller rectangle from the area of the large rectangle: 48 - 8 = 40 square units.
Therefore, the area of the figure is 40 square units.