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A composite shape is drawn with a rectangle and a square. All lines are straight and all corners are marked as right angles. The shape is made with a vertically aligned rectangle 8 yards in length and 7 yards in width. A horizontally aligned rectangle 3 yards wide and of unknown length is removed from the bottom left corner of the original rectangle. The remaining width along the bottom right is 3 yards.

Solve the following problem: A town has a swimming pool shaped as in the diagram.
What is the area of the swimming pool in square yards?

(1 point)
Responses

30 square yards
30 square yards

65 square yards
65 square yards

56 square yards
56 square yards

44 square yards

Answer 1

some times, i find the area of the whole thing including the part not there, and then i subtract the empty space.

7 x 8 = 56, and the empty space is

3 x 4 = 12, so

56 - 12 = 44, which is one of the answers

Answer 2

If you answer it your way, is there a way you would have come up with 44?

Answer 3

i see where you went wrong. the missing place was not 3 x 3, but it was 3 x 4

Answer 4

sure thing!