Question

To find the area, Andrea tiled a rectangle and sketched her answer. Sketch Andrea’s rectangle, and find the area. Show your multiplication work.

Rectangle is
2 1/2 unnits x 2 1/2 units
Area = ____

Answer 1

Area of the rectangle will be
`6(1)/(4)square units`

Explanation:

Andrea tiled a rectangle with the given dimensions as
`2(1)/(2)\text{units}* 2(1)/(2)\text{units}`

Since area of a rectangle is represented by (Length × Width)

Area =
`(5)/(2)* (5)/(2)`

=
`(25)/(4)`

=
`6(1)/(4)`

Therefore, area of the rectangle will be
`6(1)/(4)square units`