Suppose you are covering your desk (shape below) with paper and want to know how many square inches of paper you need.

a. explain in words/ drawings how you could find the total area of the shape above.

b. find the total area of the shape (show all work for credit).

c. state your answer in a complete sentence.

a. Divide the figure into two rectangles, find the area of each rectangle and add them (See the picture attached).

b.

c. The total area of the figure is 279 square inches.

Step-by-step explanation:

a. Divide the figure into two rectangles (See the picture attached), then find the area of each rectangle and finally, add the areas calculated in order to get the total area of the given figure,

b. The area of a rectangle can be found using this formula:

Where "l" is lenght  and "w" is the width.

 Area of Rectangle A

You can identify that:

Then, its area is:

Area of Rectangle B

You can identify that:

Then, its area is:

Total area

c. The total area of the figure is 279 square inches.

what are you trying find out?

step-by-step explanation:

unless you made a typo, the answers are both a and c.

step-by-step explanation:

1.5/3 is .5 whereas 3/9 is .3333333 not proportional

22/33 is .66666 and 4/6 is also .66666 proportional

2/4 is .5 whereas 142/213 is .66666 not proportional

14/7 is 2 and 7/3.5 is also 2 proportional

you could've also checked it by doing this simple division:

if the larger fraction divides with the smaller fraction to equal 1, it is proportional. so let me show you what i mean:

when i divide 22/33 by 4/6 i get 1, so we know it is proportional, and it is the same with 14/7 and 7/3.5. now if i divide 3/9 by 1.5/3 i get .66666 so therefore we know it is not proportional.

there are many ways to do this so i wanted to show you some possible ways.