Question

Olivia is cutting a 112 m1 \dfrac12 \text{ m}121​ m1, start fraction, 1, divided by, 2, end fraction, space, m by 34 m\dfrac34\text{ m}43​ mstart fraction, 3, divided by, 4, end fraction, space, m piece of rectangular paper into two pieces along its diagonal. Find the area of each of the pieces

Answer 1

The answer expert verified thing is wrong (Idek why its verified ._.)

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Answer 2

Olivia has a rectangular paper with sides:

`a= (1)/(2) m \\ \\ b= (3)/(4) m`

She is cutting paper along the diagonal. The resulting pieces of paper will have half of the original area.

Original area:

`A=a*b= (1)/(2) * (3)/(4) = (3)/(8) m^(2)`

Area of resulting pieces:

`A_(2) = (A)/(2) = ( (3)/(8) )/(2) = (3)/(16) m^(2) \\ \\ A_(2) =0.1875 m^(2)`