Question

sarah has a rectangular table that is 4 1/2 feet long and 2 3/4 feet wide. what is the area of sarah's table?

Answer 1

The area of a rectangle is equal to the product of its sides.

If the sides are 4 1/2 feet and 2 3/4 feet, we can transform this mixed numbers into decimals and calculate the product as:

`\begin{gathered} A=(4+(1)/(2))\cdot(2+(3)/(4)) \\ A=(4+0.5)\cdot(2+0.75) \\ A=4.5\cdot2.75 \\ A=12.375\text{ sq ft} \end{gathered}`

Answer: the area of the table is 12.375 square feet.