Question

First, let's look at the measures of the length and width of the wall the boys arepainting. The problem says that the wall is 7 feet wide and 6 feet tall. Frank paints14 square feet of the wall, and Ryan paints the rest.How can you draw one straight line on this grid to divide it into two sections toshow the part of the wall Frank paints and the part of the wall Ryan paints?

Answer 1

Let's draw the 7ft by 6ft wall that is being painted by Frank and Ryan.

If Frank paints 14 square feet of the wall, we can say that Frank painted two rows of 7ft wide. See illustration below.

The darker horizontal line is the straight line that divides the wall into two sections.

So, the orange part is the section where Frank paints and the blank (white) part is the part of the wall that Ryan paints.