The area of a rectangular banquet hall is 7400 square feet. the length of one side of the hall is 82 feet. explain how you can use compatible numbers to estimate the width of the hall

Answer

Find out the width of the banquet hall .

To prove

Formula

Area of rectangle = Length × Breadth

As given

The area of a rectangular banquet hall is 7400 square feet.

The length of one side of the hall is 82 feet.

Put in the above formula

7400 = 82 × width

width = 90.244 feet (approx)

Therefore the width of the hall is 90.244 feet (approx).