You can put this solution on YOUR website! First, I'm going to categorize the portions of the rectangle. The red portions are grid squares that are completely enclosed by the rectangle, the green portions are the corners and finally the blue regions are the edges.
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Let's find the area of the red region:
Notice how there are 3 red squares in the middle. So the area of these three red squares is: 3*1=3 (since each square is one square unit). So this means that the area of the rectangle is at least 3 square units
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Now let's find the area of the blue region:
First, let's estimate the area of one of the blue regions that lies on top of the rectangle. One of these regions is 1 unit across and about units high (just a guess). So the area of one blue tile is square units.
Now multiply this single area by 6 (since there are 6 blue tiles that line the top and bottom) to get
So the total area of the blue tiles that line the top and bottom is about 4.5 square units
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Now let's estimate the area of the blue tiles that line the sides. The height is 1 unit and the width is about half, so the area is approximately . Double this value (there are two blue tiles on the side) to get
So the area of the lateral blue tiles is about 1 square unit
Add this to the area of the tiles that line the top/bottom to get:
So the total area of the blue tiles is about 5.5 square units.
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Finally, let's find the area of the green region:
Looking at one green tile, each tile is about units wide and units long. So this means that the area of one green tile is about square units
Multiply this area by 4 to get
So the total area of the green region is about 1.5 square units
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