Question

What is the area in square meters of a 100 ft `xx` 150 ft rectangular yard?

Answer 1

`1,394 " m"^2`

Explanation:

The first step is to convert the lengths of the rectangle from feet to meters. There are 3.281 feet in 1 meter (i.e., `1 " m" = 3.281 " ft"`).

length = `100 " ft" xx (1 " m")/(3.281 " ft")=30.5 " m"`

width = `150 " ft" xx (1 " m")/(3.281 " ft")=45.7 " m"`

Area = length `xx` width

Area = `30.5 " m" xx 45.7 " m"`

Area = `1,394 " m"^2`

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