Mainly because nobody knows what a "rectangular inch" is.
At the very least, in order to use something like that, we would have to know the
length and width of the 'standard rectangle', and that would lead us right back to
using some kind of square unit, whether or not we gave it that name.
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The area of a rectangle cannot be 48 feet since that is NOT a measure of area. Area is measured in square units.
A rectangle does not have volume because it is 2 dimensional but it does have area which is length times width measured in square units.
The area of a rectangle is (length) multiplied by (width). The units don't matter. Just make sure that 'length' and 'width' are both measured in the same unit, whatever the unit is.
The area of rectangle is : 2106.0
The area is(4) x (the number of units in the rectangle's length) square units