The figure below shows a deck around a swimming pool.How many square feet of tiles would be required to cover the deck?

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anonymous · Answer

just take the area of the big rectangle minus the area of the small rectangle...
what u got?

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could you explain it to me step by step?

anonymous · Answer

the deck is the area outside of the swimming pool but inside of the large rectangle...

so if you take the area of the big rectangle and subtract the area of the swimming pool, you get the area of the deck...

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but what is the area of the big rectangle and the small ectangle?

anonymous · Answer

give me some numbers

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the big rectangle is 55 by 40
the small rectngle is 30 by 45

those dimensions are given... you can't see the picture you attached?

anonymous · Answer

I can... but the directions did not give me that...

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It did not state that the big rectangle was 55 by 40 and the small rectangle was 30 by 45

anonymous · Answer

they don't give directions because that is the problem need to solve.....

anonymous · Answer

yeah... I would usually ask a teacher those questions on a test...

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850

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But...

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no explicit directions...