Looking for the area of a regular figure would be taking the longest side and the shortest side and multiply
Answer:
Both are correct. Either rule applied first will have the same result. Both rules will be used either way, and the order in which they are applied does not matter as long as they are applied correctly at each step.
.5 * .5 is .25 just multiply twice since .5 is squared ( .5 is the same as 1/2)
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