Question

A hotel swimming pool measures 20 m by 8m.The hotel manager wants to put a 2 m wide deck around the pool. Caluculate the area of the deck.

Answer 1

128m

you can separate each section of the deck using a picture and find the areas of each that way. for example; there are 4 corner pieces with an area of 2x2 (4) each, 2 long sections with an area of 2x20 (40), and two shorter sections with an area of 8x2 (16)