SOLUTION: Your parents ask you to mow the lawn. It is a square plot that is 16 ft on each side and it has a square cement fountain in the center that is 3 ft on each side. What is the area o
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Question 246980: Your parents ask you to mow the lawn. It is a square plot that is 16 ft on each side and it has a square cement fountain in the center that is 3 ft on each side. What is the area of the lawn that you will mow?
Found 2 solutions by nerdybill, stanbon:
Answer by nerdybill(7384) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Your parents ask you to mow the lawn. It is a square plot that is 16 ft on each side and it has a square cement fountain in the center that is 3 ft on each side. What is the area of the lawn that you will mow?
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"area of entire yard" - "area of fountain"
(16*16) - (3*3)
= 256 - 9
= 247 square feet
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Your parents ask you to mow the lawn. It is a square plot that is 16 ft on each side and it has a square cement fountain in the center that is 3 ft on each side. What is the area of the lawn that you will mow?
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Grand total: 16^2 sq. ft.
Cement: 3^2 sq.ft
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Area to mow: 16^2-3^2 = 247 sq. ft.
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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