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10 square units
When drawing the polygon, the first thing we should notice is its shape. This polygon has four vertices, so it is a quadrilateral. Let's draw it in a coordinate plane.
Notice that the sides of the quadrilateral are vertical lines and that the top and bottom are horizontal lines. Vertical and a horizontal lines are perpendicular to each other. This means that all of the angles in the polygon are right angles and that the quadrilateral is a rectangle. We can calculate its area using the formula for the area of a rectangle.
The length is 5 units. We will now find the width in the same way.
The width is 2 units. We can now calculate the area of the given rectangle. A=l w ⇒ 5* 2=10 square units