Question

He vertices of a rectangle are plotted.

A graph with both the x and y axes starting at negative 8, with tick marks every one unit up to 8. The points negative 5 comma 2, 4 comma 2, negative 5 comma negative 4, and 4 comma negative 4 are each labeled.

What is the area of the rectangle?

15 square units
30 square units
45 square units
54 square units

Answer 1

The length of the rectangle is the distance between the points (-5, 2) and (-5, -4), which is 6 units. The width of the rectangle is the distance between the points (-5, 2) and (4, 2), which is 9 units. The area of the rectangle is length times width, which is 6 times 9, or 54 square units.

Therefore, the area of the rectangle is 54 square units.