Question

Please help!! Urgent! Due soon! - A bedroom is initially squat-shaped with each side x feet long. The room is then expanded so that the length of the room is increased by 3 feet, and the width increased by 4 feet. Choose the expression which represents how much bigger the area of the new bedroom is than the old bedroom.

Answer 1

The second one; x²+7x+12

Explanation:

So, since the beginning lengths of the square is x and x, the area of the square is x².

But then, you add 3 to one length, so that side is now (x+3), and then you add 4 to the width, so that is now (x+4).

Finally, you would multiply them together to get the equation you would use to find the new area.

For this, you would cross-multiply everything together; the x in the length by the x in the width, the x in the length by the 4 in the width, the 3 in the length by the x in the width, and then the 3 in the length by the 4 in the width. Now, all you have to do is add all of these together to get your answer.

Here's the work:

`(x+3)(x+4)\\x^(2)+3x+4x+12\\x^(2)+7x+12`