Question

I will medal, no direct answers.

Find the area of grass in this home landscape diagram. (image below)

13,300 sq. ft.

13,900 sq. ft.

15,000 sq. ft.

Answer 1

Just to make sure, is the grass the pinkish area?

Answer 2

Yes

Answer 3

Okay, first let's find the area of the entire landscape. Do you know how to get the area of a rectangle?

Answer 4

Yes, Base * Length.

Answer 5

Good, so for the entire landscape, we have 100*150
15000

Answer 6

It looks like on the left there's a 10x20 sidewalk, so we need to take that out of the area

Answer 7

Okay

Answer 8

So the area of the sidewalk (or whatever that is) is 200, so we need to take that out of 15000

Answer 9

That leaves 14800ft\(^2\). Are you following what I'm doing so far?

Answer 10

So 14,800?

Answer 11

Yes I am following.

Answer 12

Okay, we're almost there, 2 more things :)
There's a block (of who knows what) by the sidewalk that's 30x40. Can you figure that out?

Answer 13

That would be 1200 so 14,800 = 1,200 would leave me with 13,800.

Answer 14

1200 is correct, I think there's a little typo in the 13800 though, that should be 13,\(\bf 6\)00

Answer 15

Yeah I just realized my mistake.

Answer 16

It's fine :) We all make mistakes

Answer 17

The last block of something is 15x20, subtract that out of 13,600 and we get the answer :)

Answer 18

13,300.

Answer 19

Yep :)

Answer 20

Thank you for your help. @sleepyjess do you think you can help another user @stuck-help I tried but I don't quite understand what it is I have to do, maybe he or she will have better luck with you.

Answer 21

I can certainly try, could you tag me on the post?

Answer 22

Okay.