Bill wants to put a large mural on a wall that is 9 1/3 feet long and 8 1/8 feet wide. Find the area of the wall. If the mural is 100 sq feet, will it fit on the wall?

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Yuliana Chung

Mathematics

25 March, 14:39

Bill wants to put a large mural on a wall that is 9 1/3 feet long and 8 1/8 feet wide. Find the area of the wall. If the mural is 100 sq feet, will it fit on the wall?

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Hubbard · Answer 1

Our first step is to find the area of the wall

the area of a rectangle is: lxw

1. plug in our values: length: 9.3 - width: 8.125

9.3x8.125 = area of the wall

2. multiply and solve for the area of the wall:

9.3x8.125 = 75.5625 square feet

now that we found the area of the wall we need to compare that to our mural

our mural is 100 square feet and our wall is 75.5625 square feet

therefore our wall has a smaller area than our mural meaning our mural will NOT fit on the wall