We just need to find the area of the parallelogram and the triangle, and then add.
Parallelogram: The area is base times height. So, we can write 4 * 6 = 24 in^2.
Triangle: The area is base times height divided by two. So, it's 4 * 6 / 2 = 12 in^2.
24 + 12 gives us an answer of 36 inches squared.
