Question

Bill's living room floor is covered with carpet tiles. Each tile is 1 1/2 feet long by 2 3/5 feet wide. What is the area of one tile?

Answer 1

4.1 because if you turn both 1/2 and 3/5 into decimals and add them to your whole numbers then multiply them you get your answer

Answer 2

The area is found by multiplying the width and the length together.
1 1/2=3/2
2 3/5=13/5
(3/2)(13/5)=39/10
Answer: 3 9/10