Question

Kaltlin has a patio that is in the shape of a rectangle with an area of 1500 ft?. She has decided to expand the patio so that it can hold mpatio will be a larger rectangle. The current patio has a length of 50 ft and a width of 30 ft. She plans on making the new length 2 timesthe new width 2 times the current width.

Answer 1

It is given that area of rectangle of Kaitlin is 1500 sq.ft. with length 50 ft and a width of 30 ft.

The new area when new length 2 times the current length and the new width 2 times the current width.

$A=(50\times2)\times(30\times2)=100\times60=6000ft^2$

a. The size of Kaitlin new patio is

$100\times60=6000ft^2$

b. The area of new patio is 4 times the area of current patio.

$1500\times4=6000ft^2$