Question

The entire shopping centre is 4500 square feet. Your bakery takes only 1/10 of that space. How many square feet is your bakery?

Answer 1

We can multiply the portion of the shopping centre that our bakery takes up by the square area of the entire shopping centre to find the square area that it takes up.

1/10 * 4500 square feet = 450 square feet

Answer 2

Hello!

ANSWER:

Your bakery is 450 square feet.
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EXPLANATION:

Information:

• Entire shopping centre is 4,500 square feet.

• Your shop takes up 1/10 square feet of that.

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How to solve:

To calculate how many square feet your bakery takes up, convert the fraction to a decimal and then multiply it by the total amount of square feet.

To convert a fraction to a decimal, simply divide its numerator by its denominator.

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1 ÷ 10 = 0.1

4,500 × 0.1 = 450