A rectangular garden 100 m long and
80 m broad has two paths, each
2 metres wide, running through the
middle of its two adjacent sides, to
the middle of the opposite ones. Find
the total area of the path.
Answers
Answer:
356m²
Step-by-step explanation:
In the question we have given that length of the garden is 100m
And its breadth is 80m
And the question is to find the area of the path.
Observe there are two paths and a square also in the middle of the rectangular garden.
To find the area of the path what we have to do is to find the area of first path first and after that the other one than we have to also find the area of the square.
As we all know area of rectangle = Length times breadth
Length of the first path = 100m
Its breadth = 2m
So the area of first path = 100×2
= 200 m
Area of second path = 80×2
= 160 m
Why will we find the area of square?
Because notice we have measured the area of square in both paths so, we have to remove one of them by finding the area of the square.
Area of square = side²
= 2×2
=4 m
To find the area of only paths we have to remove the square from the paths
Both paths – square
160 + 200 – 4
360 – 4
= 356m
