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One person takes up about 2.5 square feet of space. Use this value to estimate how many people can fit in an area that is 20 feet wide and 25 feet long.
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One person takes up about 2.5 square feet of space. Use this value to estimate how many people can fit

in an area that is 20 feet wide and 25 feet long.

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An area that is 20 feet wide and 25 feet long will be 20*25 = 500 square feet large. Division tells us how many times one number is contained within a number, so to find how many 2.5 square feet large people fit in a 500 square feet large space, we do 500/2.5 = 200 people.

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