Question

Stitu wants to cut square pieces of chart paper which is 48 cm long and 32 cm wide .If she is able to get 6 equal pieces ,then find the length of each peices

Answer 1

Answer:

Length of each piece = 16cm.

Step-by-step explanation:

Since the chart paper is 48cm x 32cm in size, finding the total area of the paper would be A = l x w, where l=length of the paper and w=width.

A = 48 x 32 = 1536cm²

Since Stitu was able to get 6 equal pieces, then we can take the total area and divede by 6:

$\frac{1536}{6} = 256$

Since 256cm² represents the area of each square, we can take the square root of this number to find the length of just one square since the formula for the area of a square is A=s², where s=the length of one side:

s² = 256 so √s² = √256 or s = 16cm