Question

A furniture maker is building a bookshelf. He 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

Answer:

$\frac{5}{18}$ square feet.

Step-by-step explanation:

We have been given that the length of a rectangular piece of wood is 5/12 foot and width is 2/3 foot.

Since area of a rectangle is width times length, so to find the area of piece of wood we will multiply 5/12 by 2/3.

$\text{Area of wood}=\frac{5}{12}\times \frac{2}{3}$

$\text{Area of wood}=\frac{5}{6}\times \frac{1}{3}$

$\text{Area of wood}=\frac{5}{6\times 3}$

$\text{Area of wood}=\frac{5}{18}$

Therefore, area of piece of wood will be $\frac{5}{18}$ square feet.