Question

A rectangle is 5/6 of a foot long and 5/8 of a foot wide. What is the fractional area, in square feet, of the rectangle?

Answer 1

We are given the rectangle

and we want to calculate its area. Recall tha the area of a rectangle of base b and height h is given by the expression

$b\cdot h$

ino ur case b=5/6 and h=5/8. So we have

$A=\frac{5}{6}\cdot\frac{5}{8}=\frac{25}{48}$

so, the area of the rectangle would be 25/48 square feet.