Question

A sidewalk that is 2 feet wide surrounds a rectangle that is 4 feet by 6 feet. What is the area of the sidewalk in square feet?

Answer 1

Answer:

56 sq feet

Step-by-step explanation:

The picture shows that the total is 80 and the inside is 24.

Subtract those and you get the outside area.

Answer 2

Answer:
56ft^2

Explanation:
First the area of the rectangle is 24ft^2.

Then, if you draw it out, you get that the area WITH the sidewalk is 80ft^2

Subtract the area values to get the sidewalk area by its self:
80-24= 56ft^2 let me know if this helped!