Question

A wall in Marcus's bedroom is 8 2/5 feet high and 16 2/3 feet long. If he paints 1/2 of the wall blue, how many square feet will be blue?

70


64 2/15


128 2/15


140

Answer 1

For the answer to the question above, if you would like to know how many square feet of the wall will be blue, you can calculate this using the following steps:

8 2/5 feet high * 16 2/3 feet long = 8 2/5 * 16 2/3 = 42/5 * 50/3 = 140 square feet

1/2 * 140 = 140/2 = 70 square feet

The correct result would be 70 square feet.