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What we're being asked to do is to find the area for the given rectangle.
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Remember, to find the area of a rectangle, we use the formula a equals l times w, length times width.
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So for our particular rectangle, the length would be one -fourth p, and the width would be three -fourths p.
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So we just need to substitute those into our formula.
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So when we do that, we'll have the area equals one -fourth p times the width, which is three -fourth p.
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Well, now we just need to multiply.
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So remember, to multiply these two terms, we're going to multiply the coefficients, one -fourth times three -fourths, which is three over 16, and then we're going to use our product rule to multiply our variables.
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Remember, we're just going to need to add the exponents.
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So p to the first times p to the first is p to the second...