Howard's Apartment (Decompose a rectilinear figure and calculate its combined area in the context of a real-world proble

The video tutorial explains how to calculate the area of an irregular shape by dividing it into rectangles. Howard's apartment is used as an example, where the shape is split into two rectangles. The area of each rectangle is calculated using the formula for the area of a rectangle, and then the areas are summed to find the total area of the apartment. The lesson concludes with a summary of the method used to solve the problem.

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