The document contains instructions and examples for calculating the area of composite figures, which are shapes made up of two or more basic geometric figures. It provides examples of breaking polygons into parallelograms and triangles in order to calculate their total area. For one example, the area of Melissa's room was found to be 123 square feet by breaking it into a parallelogram and triangle. Another example had Georgia's garden broken into a rectangle and triangle to get an area of 21 square feet. The document ends by calculating the cost for Mary to carpet her bedroom, minus the closet area, as $252.50.