Find the area of the top of an office desk with a length of 2 yd. and a width of 7/8 yd.
Answer: 14/8
Right.
14/8 = 1 3/4 sq. yd.
How did you get 1 3/4 sq. yds?
14 divided by 8 = 1 6/8
Simplified, 1 6/8 = 1 3/4
To find the area of the top of the office desk, you need to multiply the length by the width.
Given:
Length = 2 yd
Width = 7/8 yd
To multiply fractions, you simply multiply the numerators and multiply the denominators.
So, the area of the top of the office desk is:
2 yd * (7/8) yd
To multiply whole numbers with fractions, you can convert the whole number to a fraction with a denominator of 1.
2 yd can be written as (2/1) yd
Now, we can multiply:
(2/1) yd * (7/8) yd
Multiplying the numerators gives us:
(2 * 7) / (1 * 8) yd²
Calculating the numerator and denominator:
14 / 8 yd²
Therefore, the area of the top of the office desk is 14/8 yd², which can be simplified as 1 3/4 yd².