Question

Find the area of the rhombus. 14 ft : 6. 1 14- ft 2 A=boh •14 ft?

Answer 1

The area of rhombus is

$A=\text{base}\times height$

In our case

$\begin{gathered} \text{base}=14\frac{1}{2} \\ \text{height}=14 \end{gathered}$

However, in order to compute the product, we must conver the mixed fraction into a simple fraction form, that is

$14\frac{1}{2}=\frac{2\cdot14+1}{2}=\frac{28+1}{2}=\frac{29}{2}$

Therefore, the our area is given by

$\begin{gathered} A=\frac{29}{2}\times14 \\ A=\frac{29\times14}{2} \\ A=29\times7 \end{gathered}$

since 29 x 7 is equal to 203, the answer is A= 203 ft^2.