A parallel plate capacitor has square plates of side L= 12 cm and a distance d= 2 cm between the plates. Half of the capacitor areae is filled with a dielectric with k1 = 35. the other half is filled with a different dielectric with k2 = 8. The effective( equivalent capacitance if the capacitor is

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Treat it as two capacitors in parallel, with areas of 72 cm^2 each, and dielectric constants of 8 and 35.
Add the two capacitances.
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why 72cm^2?