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Gavin goes to the market and buys one rectangle shaped board. The length of the board is 16 cm and width is 10 cm. if he wants to add a 2 cm wooden border around the board, what will be the area of the rectangle board?

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check the picture below.

doesn't that make it just a 20 x 14? well, surely you know what that area is.
Gavin goes to the market and buys one rectangle shaped board. The length of the board-example-1
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