A rectangular garden is 12 m by 8 m. You want to build a path 1 m wide around the entire garden. What is the area of the path?
Answer
44 m²
How to solve it
1
Garden: 12 × 8 = 96 m²
2
With path: 14 × 10 = 140 m²
3
Path area: 140 - 96 = 44 m²
Hints
Find original garden area
Garden plus path is 14 × 10 (add 2m to each dimension)
Subtract original from total