A furniture maker is building a bookshelf she needs to cut rectangular pieces of wood to a length of 5/12 foot and a width of 2/3 foot what is the area of a piece of wood that size

Answer 1

To find the area, what do you do with these two numbers?

Answer 2

Multiple

Answer 3

yes, multiply

Answer 4

Damon how do we know that we are multiple?? And not divide

Answer 5

When calculating area, you always multiply. Area= Length X Width.

Answer 6

Jenny, please study this site about area.

http://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/rectangle.html

Answer 7

Because to find the area of a rectangle you multiply the length by the width.
To figure out why, draw a picture 10 inches by 5 inches and divide it up into columns one inch wide and rows inch high.

Answer 8

Then count the number of one inch by one inch square boxes.
You will get 50 of them, 5 times 10 :)