SOLUTION: A walkway 3 m wide surrounds a rectangular plot if grass. The plot is 60 m long by 30 m wide. What is the area of the walkway?

Question 983619: A walkway 3 m wide surrounds a rectangular plot if grass. The plot is 60 m long by 30 m wide. What is the area of the walkway?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39618) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A walkway u meters wide surrounds a rectangular plot of grass. The plot is L meters long by w meters wide. What is the area A of the walkway?

VARIABLES

FORMULATE EXPRESSIONS OR EQUATIONS
Total area,
Just the grass plot area,
Walkway area only,

Multiplying the right member expression or keeping in its somewhat factored form is your choice. Note a term Lw and its additive inverse if you do the multiplication.

-------only three terms, all are constants.

Substitute the given values and evaluate A.
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