Problema Solution
The length of a rectangle is 20cm. Its breadth is 1/4 shorter than the length. What is the area of the rectangle?
The answer is given 70cm.. How ca it be?
Answer provided by our tutors
Assuming the width (breadth) is 1/4 of the length we have:
width = 20/4 = 5 cm
length = 20 cm
A = area
A = width*length
A = 5*20
A = 100 cm^2
The area is 100 cm^2.