Question

A furniture maker is building a bookshelf. He needs to cut rectangular pieces of wood to a length of 5/12 foot and a width of 2/3 foot.What is the area of a piece of wood that size?

Answer 1

`(5)/(18)` square feet.

Explanation:

We have been given that the length of a rectangular piece of wood is 5/12 foot and width is 2/3 foot.

Since area of a rectangle is width times length, so to find the area of piece of wood we will multiply 5/12 by 2/3.

`\text{Area of wood}=(5)/(12)* (2)/(3)`

`\text{Area of wood}=(5)/(6)* (1)/(3)`

`\text{Area of wood}=(5)/(6* 3)`

`\text{Area of wood}=(5)/(18)`

Therefore, area of piece of wood will be
`(5)/(18)` square feet.