Question

A rectangular board is 1.5 meters long and 0.8 meters wide. What is the area of the board in square millimeters? Do not round your answer.

Answer 1

Convert 1.5 and 0.8 from meters to millimeters,

1500*800,

A=120,000

Answer 2

The area of the board in square millimeters is:

1200000 square millimeters.

Explanation:

The length of the rectangular board is: 1.5 meters.

and the width of the rectangular board is: 0.8 meters.

We know that:

1 meters= 1000 millimeters

This means that:

The length of the rectangular board is: 1500 millimeters.

and the width of the rectangular board is: 800 millimeters.

Now we know that the area of rectangle is given by:

`\text{Area}=\text{Length}* \text{width}`

i.e. we have:

`\text{Area}=1500* 800\\\\\text{Area}=1200000\ \text{square millimeters}`