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Shade in a rectangle with an area of 6 square units.

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Shade in a rectangle with an area of 12 square units.

key idea

A square with a side length of 1 is called a unit

square.

Its area is 1 square unit.

Rectangles have 4 sides and opposite sides are equal.

solution

Shade 12 unit squares to make a rectangle. Make sure that the shape you shaded has 4 sides and that opposite sides of the shape are equal.

Here is an example of a rectangle with an area of 12 square units. The top and bottom sides are 4 units long. The left and right sides are 3 units long.

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Lesson: Area of rectangles

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Lesson: Area of rectangles

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