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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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\n" ); document.write( "Grand total: 16^2 sq. ft.
\n" ); document.write( "Cement: 3^2 sq.ft
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\n" ); document.write( "Area to mow: 16^2-3^2 = 247 sq. ft.
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