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3. Ana's bedroom measures 8-feet by 12-feet. She

wants to set up a corner of her room for arts and
crafts and wants to use one fourth of the dimensions
of her room for it. What will be the area of her arts
and crafts corner?

Please help me! Show work please. Sorry:(

3. Ana's bedroom measures 8-feet by 12-feet. She wants to set up a corner of her room-example-1

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If she wants one fourth of the dimensions of the room for the corner, that means the area will be 1/16 (one fourth squared) of the whole bedroom. The area of the whole bedroom is 8 x 12 = 96. The area of the corner would be 96 / 16 = 6 sq ft.

Or you can do (one fourth of 8) x (one fourth of 12) = 2 x 3 = 6 sq ft.

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