A picture framed is painting the front of a picture frame. What is the area of the frame? Assume all segments that look congruent are and all angles are right angles

36 height 24 width outside and 24 height and 16 width inside

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To find the area of the frame, we need to calculate the area of the outer rectangle and subtract the area of the inner rectangle.

Area of the outer rectangle = height x width = 36 x 24 = 864 sq units
Area of the inner rectangle = height x width = 24 x 16 = 384 sq units

Therefore, the area of the frame = 864 - 384 = 480 sq units.