Question

1. What is the area of the rectangle? Must show all work.

(7 points)

a. What is the formula for the area of the rectangle?


b. Find the length of the base. Round to the nearest tenth if needed.



c. Find the length of the height. Round to the nearest tenth if needed.




d. Find the area of the rectangle.

Answer 1

a. Area of rectangle: Length x Width or Base x height

b. The length of the base is 6

c. The height is 3

d. Area of the rectangle is 18

Explanation:

a. Area of the rectangle formula is: L x W

b. We find the Length, which means we find the distance of the x; we see that to get from point A to point B the x change is 6, so the base is 6

c. We find the height, which means we find the distance of the y; we see that get from point B to point C, the y change by 3, so the height is 3

d. To find the area we take 6 times 3 = 18