Tell your cousin good luck and that the answer is 5 :)
On Monday he reads 2 pages, on Tuesday he reads 6 pages (triple of 2: 2 + 2 + 2 = 6), on Wednesday he reads 18 pages (triple of 6: 6 + 6+ 6 = 18), on Thursday he reads 54 pages (triple of 18: 18 + 18 + 18 = 54).
Do you have a better picture?
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.
