It takes 24 feet of fence to surround a square piece of land in linda’s backyard. linda wants to plant flowers everywhere but on the diagonal sidewalk. there is 1 foot of sidewalk along two sides of the square. what is the area of the sidewalk? (a) 5 ft2 (b) 5.5 ft2 (c) 6 ft2 (d) 6.5 ft2 (e) 7 ft2

answer:

sometimes

*i think

b

step-by-step explanation:

a difference is the result of subtraction. while each of these expressions has subtraction in it, a difference will be the result when subtraction is the last operation applied in the order of operations for the expression. this means subtraction must be outside of the parenthesis. only b has this.