Look at the rectangle ABCD below.
Side AB is 6 cm long and side BC is 4 cm long.
What is the area of the rectangle?
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Look at the rectangle ABCD below.
Side AB is 6 cm long and side BC is 4 cm long.
What is the area of the rectangle?
Remember that the formula for the area of a rectangle is width times height
We are given that the width of the rectangle is 6
and that the length of the rectangle is 4
Therefore we calculate:
6*4=24
24 cm²
Look at the rectangle ABCD below.
Side AB is 6 cm long and side BC is 4 cm long.
What is the area of the rectangle?
Area measures how much space is inside the rectangle. Think of it as covering the rectangle with unit squares - you need 6 rows of 4 squares each, which equals 6 × 4 = 24 squares!
Not at all! Since multiplication is commutative, 6 × 4 = 4 × 6 = 24. The rectangle has the same area regardless of which dimension you multiply first.
Area is always measured in square units because we're measuring a 2-dimensional space. When you multiply cm × cm, you get cm² (square centimeters).
Think "Area = A × A" where the two A's stand for the two perpendicular sides. Or imagine filling the rectangle with unit squares - you multiply how many fit along each direction!
The orientation doesn't matter for area! Whether the rectangle is horizontal, vertical, or tilted, as long as AB = 6 cm and BC = 4 cm, the area is still 24 cm².
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