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Example Question #11 : How To Find The Area Of A Rectangle
The width of a rectangle is . The length of the rectangle is . What must be the area?
The area of a rectangle is:
Substitute the variables into the formula.
Example Question #11 : Rectangles
Find the area of a rectangle with side length 7 and 9.
To solve, simply use the formula for the area of a rectangle.
Substitute in the side length of 7 and width of 9.
Thus,
Example Question #12 : How To Find The Area Of A Rectangle
Find the area of a rectanlge given width is 2 and length is 3.
To solve, simply use the formula for the area of a rectangle. Thus,
Example Question #12 : Rectangles
A parallelogram with right angles has side lengths of and . What is its area?
Cannot be determined
Remember that a parallelogram with right angles is a rectangle. With that in mind, all you need to do is multiply those side lengths together, knowing that they are the length and width of a rectangle:
Example Question #13 : Rectangles
Find the area of a rectangle given width 6 and length 9.
To solve, simply multiply the width by the length. Using the formula, you get the answer as follows:
Additionally, you can alternatively solve this problem by drawing out a rectangle, creating 6 horizontal lines and 9 vertical ones, and then adding up the squares to reach your answer.
Example Question #11 : How To Find The Area Of A Rectangle
You have a poster of one of your favorite bands that you are planning on putting up in your dorm room. If the poster is 3 feet tall by 1.5 feet wide, what is the area of the poster?
You have a poster of one of your favorite bands that you are planning on putting up in your dorm room. If the poster is 3 feet tall by 1.5 feet wide, what is the area of the poster?
Area of a rectangle is found via:
Example Question #42 : Rectangles
If the area Rectangle A is larger than Rectangle B and the sides of Rectangle A are and , what is the area of Rectangle B?
Example Question #12 : How To Find The Area Of A Rectangle
Three of the vertices of a rectangle on the coordinate plane are located at the origin, , and . Give the area of the rectangle.
The rectangle in question is below:
The lengths of the rectangle is 10, the distance from the origin to ; its width is 7, the distance from the origin to . The area of a rectangle is equal to the product of its length and its width, so multiply:
Example Question #201 : Plane Geometry
What is the length of the diagonal of a rectangle that is 3 feet long and 4 feet wide?
The diagonal of the rectangle is equivalent to finding the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle with sides 3 and 4. Using the Pythagorean Theorem:
Therefore the diagonal of the rectangle is 5 feet.
Example Question #202 : Plane Geometry
The length and width of a rectangle are in the ratio of 3:4. If the rectangle has an area of 108 square centimeters, what is the length of the diagonal?
12 centimeters
18 centimeters
9 centimeters
15 centimeters
24 centimeters
15 centimeters
The length and width of the rectangle are in a ratio of 3:4, so the sides can be written as 3x and 4x.
We also know the area, so we write an equation and solve for x:
(3x)(4x) = 12x2 = 108.
x2 = 9
x = 3
Now we can recalculate the length and the width:
length = 3x = 3(3) = 9 centimeters
width = 4x = 4(3) = 12 centimeters
Using the Pythagorean Theorem we can find the diagonal, c:
length2 + width2 = c2
92 + 122 = c2
81 + 144 = c2
225 = c2
c = 15 centimeters
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