Answer:The area of the garden is
797
f
t
2
.
Explanation:
First, let's find the area of the rectangle.
We know that the area of a rectangle is the length times width, or
20
⋅
32
in this example:
20
⋅
32
=
640
So the area of the rectangle is
640
f
t
2
.
You may not know the area of a semicircle, but that's fine
−
we know the area of a circle, or
π
r
2
.
Since the area of a semicircle is half the area of a circle, we just do the area of the circle divided by
2
:
So the area of a semicircle is
π
r
2
2
.
The question asks for
π
to just be
3.14
, so instead the equation is
A
=
3.14
r
2
2
The picture gives the diameter of the circle.
To find the radius, or
r
, we divide the diameter by
2
:
20
2
=
10
Now we can solve for the area of the semicircle:
3.14
(
10
)
2
2
3.14
(
100
)
2
314
2
157
f
t
2
Now that we now the areas of the rectangle and semicircle, we can add them up to find the area of the rose garden:
640
+
157
=
797
f
t
2
