The approach is to find the area of the individual sides and add all up
Besides the base, we can identify about 6 rectangles.
area of a rectangle, A = base x height
[tex]\begin{gathered} \text{All the rectangles have a height of 12cm as se}en\text{ in the diagram,} \\ \text{Therefore area is area of 2 bases + area of rectangles.} \end{gathered}[/tex][tex]\begin{gathered} =2(65)\text{ + (4}\times12\text{)+(3}\times12\text{) +(2}\times12\text{)+(2}\times12\text{)+(2}\times12\text{)+(7}\times12\text{)} \\ =130+\text{ 48 + }36\text{ + 24 + 24 + 24 + 84} \\ =370\text{ sq cm} \end{gathered}[/tex]