Question

5in 4in 8in
To cover a garden path, a landscape designer plans to cover a walkway with parallelogram-shaped paving stones. Construct a rectangle to find the area covered by 4 paving stones. What is the area in square inches?

(1 point)
Responses

52 square inches
52 square inches

160 square inches
160 square inches

40 square inches
40 square inches

Answer 1

To find the area covered by 4 parallelogram-shaped paving stones, you would construct a rectangle with the dimensions of the paving stones - 5 inches by 4 inches.

The area of a rectangle is calculated by multiplying the length by the width.

So, the area of the rectangle would be:
5 inches x 4 inches = 20 square inches

Since there are 4 paving stones covering this area, you would multiply the area of the rectangle by 4 to find the total area covered by the 4 paving stones.
20 square inches x 4 = 80 square inches

Therefore, the correct response is not provided in the given options.