Question 14292: Jessica's pool is 10 ft. by 12 ft. A 2 ft. walk is built around the outside of the pool. Find the area of the walk. Answer by Alwayscheerful(414) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! The 2ft walk is built around the outside, that means that the area will be bigger. Imagine a rectable, inside a bigger rectable. With the walk, the dimensions would be 14ft by 16ft. How did I get that?
Since there is a two foot extension on all sides, you need to add 4 ft because there are two sides of 2ft.
Then to find the area, you do the following
Find the area of the pool.
Then find the area of the pool with the walk.
The subtract the pool from the pool and walk to get only the walk.
Your final answer should be
Hope this helps!
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