- The bottom portion of the figure, quadrilateral ABCD, may be composed into a larger rectangle with base 4 meters. The area of this composed rectangle is 40 square meters.
- The triangles that need to be subtracted from the composed rectangle to find the area bounded by ABCDEF each have a base of 4 meters and a height of 2 meters.
- The area of triangle CDE is 4 square meters.
- The total area of the figure is 36 square meters.