Rough rectangle

What is the smallest possible area that this rectangle could have?
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The length of a rectangle is 6 cm and its width is 5 cm, both correct to the nearest centimetre.

What is the smallest possible area the rectangle could have?

This problem is taken from the World Mathematics Championships