Question

If the area of one square is 1 square unit then find the areas of the following figures by counting squares.

Answer 1

Hint: The area of one full square is taken as 1 sq. unit. If it is a meter square sheet, then the area of one full square will be 1 square meter.
Since one square has an area of 1 sq. unit, we find the number of fully filled squares in the figure which are inside the dark bold lines.

Complete step-by-step answer:
Consider the area of one small square as 1 sq. unit.
We have to find the bounded area of the figure.
In the second row there are three fully filled squares, in the third row there are five fully filled squares and there is only one square present in the fourth row.
Total number of the full squares =$9$

Final Answer: The area of the figure will be $9$ square unit.

Note:
The Area of the square is given by side $ \times $ side.
Important points to consider before solving these questions
1) The area of one full square is taken as $1$ sq. unit. If it is a centimeter square sheet, then the area of one full square will be $1$ sq. cm.
2) Do not count portions of the area that are less than half a square.
3) If more than half of a square is in a region, just count it as one square.
4) If exactly half the square is counted, take its area as $\dfrac{1}{2}$ sq. units