Question

The rectangle is plotted on a coordinate plane. The four vertices are located at (-5, 5), (-5, -3), (2, 5) and (2, -3).

What is the area of the rectangle?

Answer 1

56 sq units

Explanation:

Lets begin by finding the length of the x axis. We find this by subtracting the smallest number from the larger number. In our case, this is 2 - (-5) or 7.

Then we can find the length of the y axis. Similar to the x axis, we subtract. 5 - (-3) is 8.

We calculate area by multiplying length by width, or x axis by y axis. 7 x 8 = 56. Therefore, our final answer is 56 sq units.