Its 272ft sq because if it is the area you can dig then you have to take away the No digging part and multiply the parts where you can dig.
Answer:
In centimeters, it would be 40.64 centimeters.
What you do is you find the common denominator between the two fractions given. the easiest is to just multiply them
6*8=48
and then multiply each numerator by the number it's denominator is multiplied by
1*8=8 and 5*6=30
and now you have your new fractions, add them together
8/48+30/48=38/48
this leaves 10/48 as the people who were wearing shorts, just simplify this and it's done
10/2 =5/24
48/2
