Question 19
A tiny park is coming up in Dhauli. The plan is shown in the figure. The two square plots, each of area , will have a green cover. All the remaining area is a walking path wide that needs to be tiled. Write an expression for the area that needs to be tiled.

- The park consists of two identical square green plots of area each, surrounded and separated by a walking path of uniform width
- The side length of each square plot is
- The total area to be tiled equals the total area of the park minus the total area of the two green plots.
Step 1 · Find the side length of the green plots

Given the area of each square plot is , the side length of each square plot is:
Step 2 · Determine overall dimensions of the park

Step 3 · Calculate the total area of the park

Using the distributive property to expand the product of length and width:
Step 4 · Calculate the total area of the green plots

Step 5 · Calculate the area of the walking path

- Missing the middle path: Forgetting the width between the two square plots, resulting in an incorrect length of instead of .
- Expansion error: Miscalculating the cross terms when expanding , leading to an incorrect middle term.
- Subtracting only one square: Subtracting instead of the combined area for both square plots.
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