Question

A vegetable garden and a surrounding path are shaped like a square that together are 11 feet wide. The path is 2 feet wide. Fins the total area of the veget garden and path.

Answer 1

The area of a square is found by S^2 where S is the length of a side.

The garden and path are 11 feet wide, so the total area for both is 11^2 = 121 square feet.

The length of a side of just the garden would be 11 - 4 ( 2 feet of path on both sides) = 7 feet

The area of the garden would be 7^2 = 49 square feet.

the area of the path would be the total area minus the area of the garden: 121-49 = 72 square feet.