23. Lois built a rectangular flower bed. She used four boards for the border of the flower bed. Two of the boards were 4 feet long. The other boards were 8 feet long. a. What was the area of the flower bed using these boards? b. She decided to cut each board in half to make two square flower beds. What was the area of each square flower bed? c. Did one or two flower beds give Lois more total area to plant flowers? Explain your reasoning.
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What part of these problems don't you understand?
I am unable to make the figure (with both boards) to begin with...
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