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How Do You Find the Area of a Rectangle?

Find the area of the rectangle in the diagram.

Summary

  1. L and w are variables that represent the length and width of the rectangle

Notes

    1. The formula for the area of a rectangle is length times width
    1. The length is the longer side of the rectangle
    2. The width is the shorter side of the rectangle
    1. Plug the values we just got for L and w into the formula
    1. We just need to simplify the right hand side to find the area of this rectangle