Question

A game board is made of felt cloth. Every small square on the game board has sides of length 3.5 inches, as shown below.



What is the area of the felt cloth required to make the game board?

784 in2

842 in2

112 in2

448 in2

Answer 1

First, compute the area of one square, then multiply that by the number of squares on the board.

Answer 2

\( \color{Black}{\Rightarrow (3.5)^2 \times 64}\)

Answer 3

Or how I like to do it. is create one BIG square multiply each side of the square by the number of squares on each side (8)

Answer 4

\(\Large \underbrace{3.5^2} _{\text{Area of one square } } \times \underbrace{64} _{\text{Number of squares}}\)

Answer 5

so you get