Question

a 2 ft by 2 ft square is divided into smaller squares and portions are shaded. What is the are of the portion and shades portion.?

Answer 1

Answer:

$1.5ft^2$

Explanation:

Here, we want to get the area of the shaded portion

To get this, we need the entire area

The entire area would be the product of the sides of the big square:

$2\text{ }\times2=4ft^2$

Now, let us count the number of shaded small squares.

6 out of 16 squares are shaded

The area of the shaded porion is thus:

$\frac{6}{16}\times4=1.5ft^2$