Question

A park is in the shape of a rectangle. The park authorities are planning to build a 2-meter-wide jogging path in the park (shown as the shaded region in the image). What is the area of the jogging path?

Answer 1

Option A is the correct answer.

Explanation:

Width of jogging path = 2 m

From figure we can see two rectangles, one with dimension 100m x 60m and other with dimension (100-4)m x (60-4)m

Area of jogging path = Area of rectangle with dimension 100m x 60m - Area of rectangle with dimension 96m x 56m

Area of jogging path = 6000 - 5376 = 624 square meters

Option A is the correct answer.

Answer 2

the answer is: 624 square meters