Finding Area of Rectangle with Fractional Sides

Carolina planted seeds in a box that measured 7/8 meter long and  3/5 meter wide. What is the area of the garden box?

• 10/13 square meter

• 24/35 square meter

• 21/40 square meter

• 34/50 square meter

How would you find the AREA of a RECTANGLE?

• 1/2 (Length x Width)

• Length x Width

• Length x Length

• Width x Width

What is the area of this region of the rectangle?

• 1 square unit

• 20 square units

• 18 square units

• 3/4 X 5 square units

• 5 3/4 square units

What other expressions represent the shaded region?

• 3/4 X 5

• 15/4

• 3/20

• 3 3/4

Allison wanted to paint this portion of the floor. What is the area?

• 20 square units

• 14/3 X 4 square units

• 17/3 divided by 4 square units

• 3/3 X 20 square units

Robert planted a garden. It is the shaded part. What is its area?

• 3 divided by 15/4 square units

• 15 divided by 3 square units

• 3 X 4 square units

• 3 3/4 X 3 square units?

What are some other expressions for the shaded region?

• 15/4 X 3

• 45 divided by 4

• 11 1/4

• 48 divided by 3

Where do you see the expression of the diagram?

• There are 2/4 X 9 rows of shaded area.

• 2 X 9 =18. 18 X 4= 72/4

• The squares are each divided in fourths. Each row has 9 shaded fourths. There are two rows of these shaded fourths.

• This is incorrect. There are 2 rows, but there are 9/3 shaded.

Ma Kyiah colored this part of her wall light blue. How much did she color?

• 2/3 X 4 square units

• 12/2 square units

• 4 divided by 2/3 square units

• 8 square units

Hmmm... are there other expressions for the part she colored?

• 12/2

• 4 X 2/3

• 2 2/3

• 8/3