Question

To find area, Andrea tiled a rectangle and sketched her answerrectangle is 2 1/2 x 2 1/2

Answer 1

To find the area, solve the given multiplication.

Our first step is to convert the mixed numbers into fractional numbers.

`2(1)/(2)=2+(1)/(2)=(4)/(2)+(1)/(2)=(5)/(2)`

Now, solve the multiplication of fractionals:

`(5)/(2)\cdot(5)/(2)=(25)/(4)`

The area is 25/4.