Question

What is the area of a rectangle with side lengths of 6/8 meter and 4/10 meter? In fraction in simplest form

Answer 1

We want to find the area of the rectangle with the given side lengths as indicated in the question.

The area of a rectangle is given as

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

So, this means to get the area, we will multiply the side lengths, we have

`\begin{gathered} \text{Area = leghth }*\text{ width} \\ \text{Area = }(6)/(8)*(4)/(10) \end{gathered}`

Solving the fraction, we have

`\begin{gathered} \text{Area = }(6)/(8)*(4)/(10) \\ 4\text{ divide itself is 1, }8\text{ divide 4 is 2, we have } \\ \text{Area = }(6)/(2)*(1)/(10) \\ \text{now, 2 divide itself is 1, 6 divide 2 is 3, we have } \\ \text{Area = }(3)/(1)*(1)/(10) \\ \text{Area = }(3)/(10) \end{gathered}`

Hence the area in fraction in the simplest form is

`(3)/(10)\text{ meter}`