Question

If the outer dimensions of the park are 34 m and 28 m and the inner dimensions are 24 m and 18 m find the area of each flower bed. All the flower beds have same width

Answer 1

The uniform widths serve as "heights" of trapezoids.

One direction constrains the width of the flower beds to be %2828-18%29%2F2=5; and the other direction constrains the width to be %2834-24%29%2F2=5.

Two flower beds each have bases 28 and 18, with height of 5;

and two flower beds each have bases 34 and 24 with height of 5.

CALCULATE EACH FLOWER BED AREA

%28%2828%2B18%29%2F2%29%2A5 for each of the shorter flower beds;

%28%2834%2B24%29%2F2%295 for each of the longer flower beds areas.