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Jerry is going to update his wooden pool deck. He wants to buy the stain but first needs to find out how much he will need. What is the area of the deck?

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Jerry is going to update his wooden pool deck. He wants to buy the stain but first-example-1
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The area of the deck is made up of two congruent parallelograms and a rectangle.

The area of one parallelogram is 15*18 = 270 ft^2
The area of the rectangle is 18*35 = 630 ft^2

The total deck area is
2*270 + 630 = 1170 ft^2
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