An Overview of Composite Figures
Description
A detailed tutorial on what composite figures are. Step by step tutorial including several examples of how to identify composite figures for reference.
Overview
A composite figure is any figure that can be split into more than one shape. Hardly any regular shapes are considered to be composite shapes. The only one is a regular trapezoid – it can be split into three shapes, two triangles and a rectangle. You could technically consider a rectangle to be a composite figure – you can split it into squares or smaller rectangles – but since it doesn’t need to be split into different shapes to solve for area, then it is not considered a composite figure.
The way that the trapezoidal rule works is that you take the region under a graph, approximate it as a trapezoid, and calculate the area. As a mathematical formula, this is the trapezoidal rule:
