Question

*The rectangle to the left is divided into 12 shapes. One of them is a rectangle labeled with #1 and the remaining 11 shapes are squares. The length of the side of each one of the shaded squares is 1 ft. Find the area of the given rectangle.

Answer 1

Given that the length of side of shaded area is 1 ft.

Making equal square of size of shaded area we have:

Horizontally number of shaded area are 12

Vertically number of shaded area are 11

So, the horizontal length of big rectangle is 12 ft.

The vertical length of big rectangle is 11 ft.

Area of big rectangle is 12*11

Area of given rectangle is 132 sq.ft.