You are looking at a 260 foot by 180 foot building lot to subdivide and build two houses. Your town requires 1/2 acre (one acre = 43,560 square feet) to build a house. How many acres are in this building lot and how many houses will the town allow you to build on this lot?

You have 1.07 acres in this building lot and you can only build 2 houses.

Step-by-step explanation:

You are looking at a 260 foot by 180 foot building lot to subdivide and build two houses.

We are given that 1 acre = 43,560 square feet.

In this building plot (260 foot by 180 foot), the area is:

260 * 180 = 46,800 square feet

Hence, the number of acres we have in this lot is:

Since your town requires 1/2 acre to build a house, the number of houses that you can build on it will be:

Since the number of houses can only be whole number, we approximate to nearest whole number ≅ 2 houses.

You have 1.07 acres in this building lot and you can only build 2 houses.