Check the picture below.
so the quadrilateral is really just a parallelogram below a triangle, so let's simply get the area of each and sum them up.
[tex]\stackrel{\textit{\Large Areas}}{\stackrel{parallelogram}{(6)(4)}~~ + ~~\stackrel{triangle}{\cfrac{1}{2}(6)(4)}}\implies 24~~ + ~~12\implies 36[/tex]