Question 699481: Find the area of a rectangle with a length of 6.25 feet and a width of 9.75 feet.
Answer by neatmath(302)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The area of a rectangle is given by this simple formula:
where l is the length of the rectangle,
and w is the width of the rectangle.
Thus, we have:
So the area of our rectangle is 60.9 
This is because we round the answer to the lowest number of significant digits
in either of our original two numbers.
There are 3 significant digits in both numbers,
so we round our final answer to 3 significant digits as well.
Also, in most cases, the length of a rectangle will be longer than its width,
but that is just a practical concern, it does not affect the area, nor the perimeter.
I hope this helps! Keep practicing! :)
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