Question

HELP ASAP! I don’t know how to solve this problem nor where to start. Can someone please help me out here?

Answer 1

Answer:   344

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Explanation:

It might help to draw out the picture as shown below. The pool itself (just the water only) is the inner rectangle. The outer rectangle is the pool plus the border of those 1 by 1 tiles.

The pool is a rectangle 90 feet by 80 feet. If we add on the tiles, then we get a larger rectangle that is 90+2 = 92 feet by 80+2 = 82 feet.

We add on 2 since we're adding two copies of "1" on either side of each dimension.

The larger rectangle's area is 92*82 = 7544 square feet

The smaller rectangle's area is 90*80 = 7200 square feet

The difference in areas is 7544-7200 = 344 square feet.

Each 1 by 1 tile is of area 1*1 = 1 sq foot, meaning that 344 tiles will get us the 344 square foot border around the pool.