Question

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The paper size commonly used in the United States for business letters, documents, and books is 8 1/2 inches by 11 inches.

What is the area of a sheet of paper?

1) what information do you need to know in order to solve this problem
2) answer the question in a complete sentence and explain your thinking.

Answer 1

187.0 inches^2

Explanation:

A paper has two sides so would double the value for computed surface area of the rectangle business letter paper.

By definition, area of a rectangle is length time width. We are given the length of 8.5 inches and width of 11 inches.

So the computed area for one side of paper is 8.5 inches x 11 inches.

The resulting answer for one side of paper area is 93.5 inches^2.

Now we would need to double that value to get the total surface area for the paper and the final answer is 187.0 inches^2