Question

Yolanda has a rectangular poster that is 16 cm long and 10 cm wide what is the area of the poster in square meters do not round your answer is sure to include the correct unit in your answer

Answer 1

The area of a rectangle can be calculated as the height times the wide.

But be careful, the problem asks it in square meters! So let's use meters instead of centimeters.

Remember that : 1 m = 100 cm ----> 1 cm = 0.01 m

`\begin{gathered} A=b\cdot h \\ \\ A=0.16\cdot0.10 \end{gathered}`

Doing the multiplication

`A=0.016\text{ m}^2`

Therefore the area of the poster is 0.016 square meters