Question

A rectangular plot of land length 200m and breadth170m. Mrs ammena wants to build a garden with two roads crossing each other with 4m wide. Find the area of the path

Answer 1

let path 1 be abcd

let path 2 be pqrs

let common path be efgh

ab = 200m

bc= 4m

area = l x b

200 x 4

800 m square

pq= 4m

qr = 170 m

area = lx b

4 x170

680 m square

ef 4 m

fg 4 m

area. l x b

4x4

16 m square

800+ 680 -16

1464 m square

hence area of crossing path is 1464 m square