your school is governing body has identified a space in front of the classes to be paved for morning assembly purposes. The space identified is rectangular and has width of 9 meters and length of 17 meters.

Question

you are expected to conduct a research in order to determine the number of flat paving bricks needed for paving the identified space and the paving cost if the paving cost if the paving company charges R22 Per square metres.
1. convert the area of the identified space in millimeters

Answer 1

To find the area of the identified space in square millimeters, we first calculate the area in square meters and then convert that into square millimeters.

1. Calculate the area in square meters: \[ \text{Area} = \text{Length} \times \text{Width} = 17 , \text{m} \times 9 , \text{m} = 153 , \text{m}^2 \]

2. Convert the area to square millimeters: \[ 1 , \text{m} = 1000 , \text{mm} \quad \Rightarrow \quad 1 , \text{m}^2 = (1000 , \text{mm}) \times (1000 , \text{mm}) = 1,000,000 , \text{mm}^2 \] \[ \text{Area in mm}^2 = 153 , \text{m}^2 \times 1,000,000 , \text{mm}^2/\text{m}^2 = 153,000,000 , \text{mm}^2 \]

Therefore, the area of the identified space in square millimeters is 153,000,000 mm².