You can do:
-two trapezoids
-six triangles
-two parallelograms
You can't put it into one rectangle, that will definitely not work.
As you can see from the attachment, triangles work, trapezoid as well, and two parallelograms. The one rectangle would not work.
I hope this helps!
~kaikers
= -3/2 * -5 1/4
convert 5 1/4 to improper fraction
= -3/2 * -21/4
multiply numerators; multiply denominators
= (-3*-21)/(2*4)
multiply in parentheses
= 63/8
convert back to mixed number
= 7 7/8
ANSWER: Since the exact answer is the mixed number 7 7/8, a reasonable estimate is 8.
Hope this helps! :)
I think 2/4 but I'm not 100% sure sry