Calculate the Area of a Rectangle: Visual Geometry Problem

Look at the rectangle in the figure.

What is its area?

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00:00 Find the area of the rectangle
00:03 We'll use the formula for calculating rectangle area (side times side)
00:07 Pay attention to parentheses
00:23 Collect terms
00:35 Open parentheses properly, multiply each term by each term
01:17 Calculate the products
01:34 Collect terms
01:42 And this is the solution to the problem

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Understand the problem

Look at the rectangle in the figure.

What is its area?

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Step-by-step solution

We know that the area of a rectangle is equal to its length multiplied by its width.

We begin by writing an equation with the available data.

(4x+x2)×(3x+8+5x) (4x+x^2)\times(3x+8+5x)

Next we use the distributive property to solve the equation.

(4x×3x)+(4x×8)+(4x×5x)+(x2×3x)+(x2×8)+(x2×5x)= (4x\times3x)+(4x\times8)+(4x\times5x)+(x^2\times3x)+(x^2\times8)+(x^2\times5x)=

We then solve each of the exercises within the parentheses:

12x2+32x+20x2+3x3+16x2+5x3= 12x^2+32x+20x^2+3x^3+16x^2+5x^3=

Finally we add up all the coefficients of X squared and all the coefficients of X cubed and we obtain the following:

48x2+8x3+32x 48x^2+8x^3+32x

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Final Answer

8x3+28x2+44x 8x^3+28x^2+44x

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