ee wants to cut this piece of canvas into two rectangles that are 3 x 2 and 3 x 5. He wants the sum of the areas of the two small rectangles to be the same as the area of the large. Can he do this? explain.

Answer 1

Not sure. If the large rectangle is 7x3, then it's no sweat, since

7x3 = (2+5)x3