Question

Mike is building a new deck in his backyard with the dimensions shown in the diagram. He needs to determine how many square feet of lumber needs to be purchased. Find the total area of the deck.

Answer 1

We need the diagram

Answer 2

Hai, welcome to QuestionCove
For future references please include the diagram etc for problems c:

Answer 3

For this we can just pretend that its all one full rectangle and multiply height and width
10x15 (since we are doing it as a whole) which leaves us with 150
However we do have that chunk that is missing above the 5 by 5 area, and thats area is 25 square feet
So just subtract 25 from 150 o:

Answer 4

ok thanks