Find the area of the shaded region if the area rectable's area is x^2 + 5x - 7 and the area of the square is x^2

i have no idea how to solve this.

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Find the area of the shaded region if the area rectable's area is x^2 + 5x - 7 and the area of the square is x^2 

i have no idea how to solve this.

anonymous · Answer

@iambatman idk if you know how to do this, just wondering.

anonymous · Answer

accidently wrote rectable's instead of rectangle's

anonymous · Answer

@Psymon

directrix · Answer

@pufss   Please post the diagram for this. Thanks.

anonymous · Answer

|dw:1382504559631:dw| looks something like this

directrix · Answer

@pufss   What is shaded?  Is the shade the portion of the interior of the rectangle that is not part of the square?

anonymous · Answer

The larger part is shaded in grey the smaller part is just blank white.

directrix · Answer

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