A wall in Marcus's bedroom is 8 1/3 feet high and 16 1/5 feet long. If he paints 1/3 of the wall blue, how many square feet will be blue?

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Answer:
45 ft
² will be blue

Explanation:
1- getting the area of the wall:
area of the rectangle can be calculated as follows:
area = length * width

we are given that:
length = 
[tex]16 \frac{1}{5} [/tex] ft
width = 
[tex]8 \frac{1}{3} [/tex] ft

Now, substituting in the above rule, we can get the area as follows:
area = 
[tex]16 \frac{1}{5} [/tex] * [tex]8 \frac{1}{3} [/tex] = 135 ft²

2- getting the area that would be pained blue:
We are given that 
[tex] \frac{1}{3} [/tex] of the area of the room would be painted blue, this means that:

area of blue = 
[tex] \frac{1}{3} [/tex] * area of room

area of blue = 
[tex] \frac{1}{3} [/tex] * 135

area of room = 45 ft
²

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