Question

Mrs. Garcia wants to paint her patio floor. She needs to determine the area so she will know how much paint to buy. What is the area of the patio floor shown?

Answer 1

Answer: 375 ft

Explanation:

1. break the shape into three parts in order to find the area of each of them
2. look at the picture. I broke the parts into numbers 1 ,2 ,and 3. You can take the area for number one bye using the length given which is 20 and the width which is 5. Multiply the length times width and you'll receive the area.
3. Box 2 : subtract 5 - 15 in order to get the width which is 10 and use the lengths given at the top which is 20. multiply them in order to get the area.

1. box 3 : in order to get the width you can subtract 30 by 20 + 5 which leaves you with 5, which is the width. The length is already given to you on the side which is 15. Multiply 5 by 15 in order to get the area.

once you get all of the areas for the boxes which should be 100, 200, 75. add them all up to obtain the area of the shape which should equal 375 ft.