Question

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Consider the following word problem.
Martin starts at one corner of a square field and walks 40 feet along one side to another corner of the field. He turns 90° and walks 30 feet, and then walks straight back to where he started. What is the area of the part of the field he walked around?

Choose the best strategy to help solve the problem.



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Answer 1

1200 squared ft

Explanation:

if he walks 40ft then turns 90* the walks 30ft. you take the 40ft and mutiply it by the 30ft cause you want to get the area. then equalling 1200ft squared