Question

Jenny is building a rectangular garden around a tree in her yard. The southwest corner of the garden will be 2 feet south and 3 feet west of the tree. The northeast corner of the garden will be 1 foot north and 4 feet east of the tree. If jenny paves a path around the garden that is uniformly 3 feet wide, then what is the area of he path?
Draw the diagram of what is given. Clearly the garden is 3x7.

So, the dimensions of the entire area of garden+path is 9x13.

The area of the path is thus 9*13-3*7
20 ft
The correct answer is 96ft not 20ft.

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