Question

a lawn is 70 m long and 85 m broad a path of 10m wide is to be built around it find the area of the path

Answer 1

2h(l+b)
2(85)(70+10)
170(80)
13600

Answer 2

I think it's 1650 you can first find the area of the lawn,then add 10 to both length and breadth and find the area of rect. having these length and breath and then subtract a previous area from it in order to get the area of the path. hope it helps.