Math 67:

In the summer of 1858, Victorian gentleman and fossil hobbyist William Parker Foulke was vacationing in Haddonfield, New Jersey, when he heard that twenty years previous, workers had found gigantic bones in a local marl pit. Foulke spent the the late summer and fall directing a crew of hired diggers and eventually found the bones  of an animal larger than an elephant with structural features of both a lizard and a bird. If his crew had to dig a rectangle around the skeleton that was 54 feet tall and 23 feet long, how many square feet was the area of the rectangle?

Answer

1,242 square feet

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