Adam wants to create a square garden with a walkway on all four sides. The width of the walkway is 4 feet.

Question

Write a function to represent the area of the garden in terms of the length of one side of the walkway, x. ???

Answer 1

If the walkway has outside length of x, the inside length (the side of the garden) is x-8

SO, the garden has area (x-8)^2