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Example Questions
Example Question #3 : How To Find The Area Of A Rectangle
How many squares with the side length of 2 inches can be fitted in a rectangle with the width of 10 inches and height of 4 inches?
Solution 1:
We can divide the rectangle width and height by the square side length and multiply the results:
rectangle width square length =
rectangle heightsquare length =
Solution 2:
As the results of the division of rectangle width and height by the square length are integers and do not have a residual, we can say that the squares can be perfectly fitted in the rectangle. Now in order to find the number of squares we can divide the rectangle area by the square area:
Rectangle area = square inches
Square area = square inches
So we can get:
Example Question #41 : Area Of Polygons
A rectangle has the area of 80 square inches. The width of the rectangle is 2 inches longer that its height. Give the height of the rectangle.
The area of a rectangle is given by multiplying the width times the height. That means:
where:
width and height.
We know that: . Substitube the in the area formula:
Now we should solve the equation for :
The equation has two answers, one positive and one negative . As the length is always positive, the correct answer is inches.
Example Question #5 : How To Find The Area Of A Rectangle
A rectangle with a width of 6 inches has an area of 48 square inches. Give the sum of the lengths of the rectangle's diagonals.
A rectangle has two congruent diagonals. A diagonal of a rectangle divides it into two identical right triangles. The diagonal of the rectangle is the hypotenuse of these triangles. We can use the Pythagorean Theorem to find the length of the diagonal if we know the width and height of the rectangle.
where:
is the width of the rectangle
is the height of the rectangle
First, we find the height of the rectangle:
So we can write:
inches
As a rectangle has two diagonals with the same length, the sum of the diagonals is inches.
Example Question #1031 : Ssat Upper Level Quantitative (Math)
A rectangle has the width of and the diagonal length of . Give the area of the rectangle in terms of .
First we need to find the height of the rectangle. Since the width and the diagonal lengths are known, we can use the Pythagorean Theorem to find the height of the rectangle:
So we have:
So we can get:
Example Question #3 : How To Find The Area Of A Rectangle
The perimeter of a rectangle is 800 inches. The width of the rectangle is 60% of its length. What is the area of the rectangle?
Let be the length of the rectangle. Then its width is 60% of this, or . The perimeter is the sum of the lengths of its sides, or
; we set this equal to 800 inches and solve for :
The width is therefore
.
The product of the length and width is the area:
square inches.
Example Question #4 : How To Find The Area Of A Rectangle
Rectangle A has length 40 inches and height 24 inches. Rectangle B has length 30 inches and height 28 inches. Rectangle C has length 72 inches, and its area is the mean of the areas of the other two rectangles. What is the height of Rectangle C?
The area of a rectangle is the product of the length and its height, Rectangle A has area square inches; Rectangle B has area square inches.
The area of Rectangle C is the mean of these areas, or
square inches, so its height is this area divided by its length:
inches.
Example Question #9 : How To Find The Area Of A Rectangle
The area of a rectangle is square feet. The width of the rectangle is four-sevenths of its length. Give the length of the rectangle in inches in terms of .
Let be the length in feet. Then the width of the rectangle in feet is four-sevenths of this, or . The area is equal to the product of the length and the width, so set up this equation and solve for :
Since this is the length in feet, we multiply this by 12 to get the length in inches:
Example Question #11 : How To Find The Area Of A Rectangle
Rectangle A has length 40 inches and height inches; Rectangle B has length 30 inches and height inches; Rectangle C has height inches, and its area is the sum of those of the other two rectangles. What is its length?
The correct answer is not among the other choices.
The correct answer is not among the other choices.
The area of a rectangle is the product of the length and its height.
Rectangle A has area square inches, and Rectangle B has an area of square inches, so the sum of their areas is square inches. This is the area of Rectangle C; divide it by height inches to get a length of
inches. This answer is not among the given choices.
Example Question #81 : Areas And Perimeters Of Polygons
The perimeter of a rectangle is 490 centimeters. The width of the rectangle is three-fourths of its length. What is the area of the rectangle?
Let be the length of the rectangle. Then its width is three-fourths of this, or . The perimeter is the sum of the lengths of its sides, or
.
Set this equal to 490 centimeters and solve for :
The length of the rectangle is 140 centimeters; the width is three-fourths of this, or
centimeters.
The area is the product of the length and the width:
square centimeters.
Example Question #13 : How To Find The Area Of A Rectangle
A basketball team wants to paint a 4-foot wide border around its court to make sure fans don't get too close to the action. If the court is 94 by 50 feet, and one can of paint can cover 300 square feet, how many cans of paint does the team need to ensure that the entire border is painted?
(Assume that you cannot buy partial cans of paint.)
We begin this problem by finding the difference of two areas: the larger rectangle bounded by the outer edge of the border and the smaller rectangle that is the court itself.
The larger rectangle is square feet , and the court is square feet .
The difference, , repesents the area of the border.
Now we divide this by , which is just a bit over . But since we can't leave square feet unpainted, we have to round up to cans of paint.