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Find the area of the rectangle.

Write your answer as a whole or mixed number.

square units

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Find the area of the rectangle.

Write your answer as a whole or mixed number.

square units

The rectangle shows 3 columns of

unit squares.

The area of each unit square is 1 square unit. So, the area of each column is

square units.

To find the area of the rectangle, you can add the area of each column.

The area of the rectangle is 4 square

units.

You can also find the area of the rectangle by multiplying its side lengths.

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to an improper fraction

Convert

to an improper fraction

Multiply

Write the improper fraction as a whole number

The area of the rectangle is 4 square units.

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