ACREAGE CALCULATOR
About acreage calculator
Acreage calculator provided on this web page is a tool which can be used to find the area of the rectangle in acres where length and width of the rectangle can be given in any units.
Why do people need this calculator?
When people want to find the area of the rectangle, they can use the formula "lxw" and find the area for the given length and width. But the problem that the students have is, "how to write the units". If both length and width are given in inches, then the area of the rectangle would be square inches. If both length and width are given in feet, the answer would be in square feet.
When length is given in one unit and width is given different unit, students get confused to find the area. Our acreage calculator will give you the area of the rectangle in acres even if we give length and width in different units. That is, if we give the length in feet and width in inches, it will calculate the area of the rectangle in four kinds of units. They are acres, square yards, square feet, square inches.
Using the calculator in solving word problems
When people do preparation of solving word problems on "Area of rectangle", they may have the questions like, "Find the area of the rectangle in acres whose length is 15 inches and width is 10 inches. When students have this kind of problems on "Area of Rectangle", they get confused on units. The units of both length and width are same, that is inches. But the answer is expected in acres.
The above said problem would be solved by the students in two ways. The first way is, students will find the area of the rectangle using the formula "lxw" with the length and width in given units. That is, they find the area of the rectangle in the above problem is 150 square inches. Then, they convert square inches in to acres. The second way of solving is, students will convert inches in to feet even before finding the area. After having converted inches in to feet , they will find the area of the rectangle.
Our calculator will give the area of the rectangle in four kinds of units. Students can get the area of the rectangle in acres, square yards, square feet and square inches.
Advantages of using this online calculator
Students have the topic "Area of the Rectangle" in school level math. They may have to do lots of problems on this topic. In most of the problems, they have to find the area of the rectangle in acres. Students would find answers for the questions as directed in the question. But they would not be sure, whether the answer they have received is correct or incorrect. At that time, they can use this acreage calculator to verify their answer.
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