To answer this question you would need to find the surface area of this rectangular prism. In order to find the surface area you would find the areas of all six faces. The top and bottom faces would both be square with an area of 5.29 (2.3x 2.3)ft.². All for lateral faces would have areas of 8.28 (2.3x3.6)ft.². Adding these for faces along with the other two faces would give you a total surface area of 43.7 ft.². If you take away the bottom face which is not painted you will have a surface area that is going to be painted of 38.41 ft.². To determine the percentage of this rectangle or prism that is going to be painted, create a ratio of the amount painted to the total amount surface area. Divide these to create a decimal and then converted to a percent. 38.41/43.7=0.879 (87.9%).
The key here is to not worry too much and just follow PEMDAS.
Here we have the expression 
. Following PEMDAS, we complete the expression inside the parentheses first, or 
. This gives us 
or just 
Hope this helps.
3000 Quick answer
Let your calculator do the work. Be careful how you enter this in. (Are you supposed to estimate it? We'll get around to that.) Write it like this.
1.2 * 10^3 divided by 4 * 10^-1 Your calculator will do this nicely. The trick is the - 1. Put it in the calculator like this.
1.2
*
10
^
3
=
÷
4
*
10
^
(-1)
= The calculator should read 3000
That's one way to do it. Another way is just to do it all by hand. The numbers are easy enough
1.2 * 10^3 means shift the decimal 3 places right. 1 200 which is 1200
4 * 10^-1 can be handled 2 ways 10 to the minus 1 in the denominator becomes 10^1 in the numerator. Notice the sign change on the 10 when you shift if :it becomes plus! That's why you did it.
1200 * 10^1
12000
Now you are still left with 4 in the denominator.
12000/4 = 3000.
The first method always works. The second one gives you a better understanding of how powers work. There are other ways of doing this, but these are the two best, I think.
Step-by-step explanation:
all these are the answers of your question
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