Question

a stage is 10 yards long and 5 yards wide. The orchestra pit in front of the stage is 4 yards long and 2 yards wide. How much floor space do the stage and orchestra pit take up?

Answer 1

Well to find this answer, I assume that you want me to help with finding the area. Let's start with the area of the stage. Off of the info you gave me, I assume that the stage and pit are rectangles. So to find the area of the rectangles, we need to use the area formula A=l×w. Plug in the numbers into the formula and we get A=10×5. So the area of the stage is 50 yards. Now do the same thing for the pit, and we get A=4×2. So the pit's area is 8 yards. Add 50 and 8 to get the total area and we get 58. So the stage and the orchestra pit take up 58 yards of floor space. Hope I helped!