SOLUTION: Explain how to determine the number of square feet required to cover your rectangular garden that has a length of 10 feet and a width of 8 feet?

Question 748558: Explain how to determine the number of square feet required to cover your rectangular garden that has a length of 10 feet and a width of 8 feet?

Answer by timvanswearingen(106) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Square feet, or any other "square" unit would imply that you are looking for the area.
The area of a rectangle is given by:

Where A is the area, l is the length and w is the width. So:

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