Question

What is the area of a sheet of binder paper? (Binder paper is 8 1/2 inches by 11 inches.)

Answer 1

Area of a rectangle is the product of length times width.  Thus, here we need the product of 8 1/2 inches by 11 inches.

One way of doing this follows:            8.5
                                                         8.5
                                                       ----------         
                                                         93.5 square inches

Rounding up, this comes out to 94 square inches.

Alternatively:     17             187
                         ---- * 11 = ------- = 93.5 square inches; rounded, that's 94.
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