Sammy draws 3 identical rectangles on his paper. If each rectangle has a base of 15 cm and a height of 12 cm, what is the total area of all 3 rectangles added together?
If you do 15x12 which is the formula for area for a rectangle, you get 180. That's only the area of one rectangle but if you multiply it by 3 you get 540 for the areas added together.
