Question

How did you know how to draw a rectangle with an area that is greater than 8 squares centimeters.

Answer 1

To find the area of a rectangle, multiply the length by the width. The formula is:, where  is the area,  is the length,  is the width, and · means multiply.A square is a rectangle with 4 equal sides. To find the area of a square, multiply the length of one side by itself. The formula is:   or  ,  where A is the area, s is the length of a side, and · means multiply.

Answer 2

You could make it 5 cm by 2 cm and multiply them and get 10 for your area.