check the picture below.
so the playground is really just 3 rectangles and one triangle, now the triangle has a base of 8 and a height of 6. We can simply get the area of each figure, sum them up and that's the area of the playground.


<h2><em>hope</em><em> it</em><em> helps</em></h2>
1/2x + 3 = 2/3x + 1....multiply everything by the common denominator of 6
3x + 18 = 4x + 6
3x - 4x = 6 - 18
-x = - 12
x = 12 <====
multiplying by the common denominator will get rid of the fractions