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What is the Total Area of My Skin?
Follow your teacher’s directions to complete this page.
1. There are _________ square inches in 1 square foot.
2. My guess is that the total area of my skin is about _______ square feet.
Follow these steps to estimate the total area of your skin:
Ask your partner to trace the outline of your hand on the one inch grid.
Estimate the area of the outline of your hand by counting squares on the grid.
Use the rule of thumb to estimate the total area of your skin (area of skin = 100 * area of hand). Record your estimate in Problem 4 below.
3. I estimate that the area of the outline of my hand is about _______ square inches.
4. I estimate that the total area of my skin is about ________ square inches.
5. I estimate that the total area of my skin is about ________ square feet.
6. A. There are _______ square feet in 1 square yard.
B. I estimate that the total area of my skin is about ________ square yards.

Rule of Thumb: The total area of your skin is about 100 times the area of the outline of your hand.

What is the Total Area of My Skin?
Ask your partner to trace the outline of your hand on the grid below. Keep your 4 fingers and thumb together.