SAT Area and volume Practice Question 15 (Easy)

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A rectangular garden is $12$ meters long and $7.5$ meters wide. What is the area, in square meters, of the garden?

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Answer: 90

The area of a rectangle is length times width: $12 \times 7.5 = 90$ square meters.

Answering $39$ computes the perimeter, $2(12 + 7.5)$ , instead of the area.

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