Asked by Jenny

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
Answered by Ms. Sue
To find the area, what do you do with these two numbers?

Answered by Jenny
Multiple
Answered by Damon
yes, multiply
Answered by Jenny
Damon how do we know that we are multiple?? And not divide
Answered by Jen
When calculating area, you always multiply. Area= Length X Width.
Answered by Ms. Sue
Jenny, please study this site about area.

http://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/rectangle.html
Answered by Damon
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.
Answered by Damon
Then count the number of one inch by one inch square boxes.
You will get 50 of them, 5 times 10 :)
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