82-2 Counting Whole & Half Units

You find the area of a figure by counting the square units.  Sometimes you will need to count half units.  Look at the example below.

Example A

The area of the triangle above is equal to  1/2 + 1/2 + 1/2 + 1/2 + 1 + 1 = 4

The triangle has an area of 4 square units.

Find the area of the figures below.

Area = sq. units	Area = sq. units
Area = sq. units	Area = sq. units
Area = sq. units	Area = sq. units
Area = sq. units	Area = sq. units