Question

a flower garden is 3 feet by 5 feet. the Middleton family wants to put a walkway that is 2 feet wide around the garden. what will the area of the walkway be?

Answer 1

Hey there! :D

Think of it this way. The garden is a rectangle. We are trying to find the area of the walk way (that is like a line) around the rectangle. We know area= length*width. 

We have the dimensions of the rectangular garden. 3 ft* 5 ft. This means that two sides of the rectangle is 3 ft long, and the other two are 5 ft long. We know the width of the side walk already. (which is 2)

Area= length*width

A= 5*2= 10 (for one side)

10*2= 20

A= 3*2= 6 (for one side)

6*2= 12 

20+12= 32

The area of the walkway will be 32 ft^2. 

I hope this helps!
~kaikers