Question

Rose is drawing a portrait for her art class. She is using a sheet of paper what is 6 inches wide and 12 inches long. What is the area of the art paper in square feet?

Answer 1

0.5 ft^2

Explanation:

The area in square inches is (6 in )(12 in) = 72 in^2.

Recall that 1 ft^2 = 144 in^2.

Then

72 in^2 1 ft^2

--------------- * --------------- = 0.5 ft^2

1 144 in^2