Length × Width Got My Lawn Wrong

This lawn is 55 feet long and 25 feet wide at its widest. Is its area just 55 × 25 feet? That gives 1,375 square feet, but the lawn is only about 1,150 square feet (about 107 m²). Length × width counts 225 square feet of empty corners as lawn: about a fifth more seed or sod than the lawn needs. This video shows two better ways to find the area of an awkward shape: counting squares on a grid (42 whole squares plus 8 part squares counted as halves), and splitting it into a rectangle and a triangle (1,000 + 150 square feet). It also converts the area to square meters, using 1 square foot ≈ 0.0929 m². Try it yourself: ▶ https://www.metric-conversions.org/area/square-feet-to-square-meters.htm Chapters: 0:00 The problem 0:33 Method one, the grid 1:12 Method two, split it up 2:07 In metric 2:24 Takeaway Sources: • Sod Installation and Maintenance, Mississippi State University Extension: https://extension.msstate.edu/publications/sod-installation-and-maintenance • Triangle, Wolfram MathWorld: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Triangle.html • Feet to Meters, metric-conversions.org: https://www.metric-conversions.org/length/feet-to-meters.htm • Square Feet to Square Meters, metric-conversions.org: https://www.metric-conversions.org/area/square-feet-to-square-meters.htm Is there anything else you'd like us to cover? Let us know in the comments below.