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patio is 12ft by 15ft after remodeling new deck is 18ft by 22ft how many square ft have you increased

User Omair Nabiel
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First of all we need to know that we are going to calculate the area of two squares:

The firstone:


area=12\cdot15=180ft^2

The secondone:


\text{area}1=18\cdot22=396ft^2

the diference was:


396-180=216ft^2

Finally, the answer is 216 square ft have increased.