14. Taisha’s Bakery has a plan for a 50 ft-by-31 ft parking lot. The four parking spaces are congruent parallelograms, the driving region is a rectangle, and the two unpaved areas for ﬂowers are congruent triangles.

a. Find the area of the surface to be paved by
adding the areas of the driving region and
the four parking spaces.
b. Describe another method for ﬁnding the
area of the surface to be paved.
c. Use your method from part (b) to ﬁnd
the area. Then compare answers from
parts (a) and (b) to check your work.

Question

14. Taisha’s Bakery has a plan for a 50 ft-by-31 ft parking lot. The four parking spaces are congruent parallelograms, the driving region is a rectangle, and the two unpaved areas for ﬂowers are congruent triangles.

a. Find the area of the surface to be paved by 
adding the areas of the driving region and 
the four parking spaces.
b. Describe another method for ﬁnding the
area of the surface to be paved.
c. Use your method from part (b) to ﬁnd
the area. Then compare answers from 
parts (a) and (b) to check your work.

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