Question

Marcia drew a dlagram of the driveway on the side of her house, as shown below 18 yd 4 yd 10 yd 7 yd What is the total area of her driveway?

Answer 1

To find the total area of the driveway you can proceed like this:

$A_T=A_1+A_2$

Where AT is the total area of the driveway and

You can see that A1 and A2 are rectangles. The formula to find the area of a rectangle is

$\begin{gathered} A=l\cdot w_{} \\ \text{ Where A is the area,} \\ l\text{ is the length and} \\ w\text{ is the width of the rectangle} \end{gathered}$

Then, for A1 you have

$\begin{gathered} l=11yd \\ w=4yd \\ A_1=11yd\cdot4yd \\ A_1=44yd^2 \end{gathered}$

And for A2 you have

$\begin{gathered} l=10yd \\ w=7yd \\ A_2=10yd\cdot7yd \\ A_2=70yd^2 \end{gathered}$

Finally, you have

$\begin{gathered} A_T=A_1+A_2 \\ A_T=44yd^2+70yd^2 \\ A_T=114yd^2 \end{gathered}$

Therefore, the total area of her driveway is 114 square yards.