Question

A blue rectangle is 3/4 unit long and 1/2 unit wide. What is the area?

Answer 1

Answer:

The formula for area is area = length multiplied by your width.

So, A = LW

Your length is 1 & 1/4 meters, and your width is 3/4 of a meter.

You can then change the 1 & 1/4 from a mixed number to a regular fraction.

1 & 1/4 as a regular fraction is 5/4.

So your length = 5/4

width = 3/4.

Plug both of these numbers in for your equation of A = LW

so,

Area = (5/4)(3/4)

multiplying those fractions together, you get 15/16 as your area.