Question

A rectangle is 5/2 meters long and 4/5 of a meter wide. What is the total area, in square meters, of the rectangle?

Answer 1

A home builder needs to cover the rectangular floor of a closet with a carpet. The closet is 4 yards long and 2/5 of a yard wide. How much carpet will the home builder need to cover the closet?

Answer 2

Every square tile on a kitchen counter has an area of 2/5 square inches. If there are 14 tiles, what is the total area of the kitchen counter in square inches?

Answer 3

To find the area of a rectangle, we multiply its length by its width. In this case, the length is 5/2 meters and the width is 4/5 of a meter.

So,

Area = length x width
Area = (5/2) meters x (4/5) meters
Area = (5/2) x (4/5) meters^2
Area = (20/10) meters^2
Area = 2 meters^2

Therefore, the total area of the rectangle is 2 square meters.

Answer 4

To find the area of the closet, we need to multiply its length by its width.

The length is given as 4 yards.

The width is given as 2/5 of a yard. We can convert this to yards by dividing by 3 (since there are 3 feet in a yard) and then multiplying by 2 (since 2/5 is equivalent to 0.4, and 0.4 multiplied by 3 is 1.2):

Width = (2/5) yards = (2/5) x (1/3) x 2 = (4/15) yards

So now we can find the area:

Area = length x width
Area = 4 yards x (4/15) yards
Area = (16/15) square yards

Therefore, the home builder will need (16/15) square yards of carpet to cover the closet.