The diagram represents a flower border that is 3 feet wide surrounding a rectangular sitting area. write an expression in factored form that represents the area of the flower box. can someone give me an explanation as to how you get both areas? i only understand how to get the sitting areas.

Ablock of wood is a cube whose side is x in. long. you cut off a 1-inch thick piece from the entire right side. then you cut off a 3-inch thick piece from the entire top of the remaining shape. the volume of the remaining block is 2,002 in3. what are the dimensions of the original block of wood?

In the following diagram it is given that dec, ab || dc, ad || eb, and ad is congruent to bc. a)why isn't abc a parallelogram even though it has a pair of parallel sides and a pair of congruent sides b)explain why be must be congruent to bc. further explain what type of triangle this makes triangle abc and what it tells you about angle 1 and angle 2c) finally why must angle 3 be congruent to angle 1? further, explain why we know that angle 3 is congruent to angle 2

There is an entrance to the computer room at point e which lies on ab and is 5 feet from point a. plot point e on the coordinate plane. find the distance from the entrance at point e to the printer at point e