You can find the area of a rectangle by multiplying the length and height. so multiply 1/2*7/4(which is the simpler version of 1 3/4) and you get 7/8 as your answer.
Ben works in his dads bakery packing bagels each package can have no more then 16 bagels 3/4 of the bagels in each package are plain what other fractions could represent the part of the bagels in each package that will be plain