Please Help Me. This is Urgent!!!
The Lush Landscaping Company is involved in a project for the city. They will be enlarging the garden in front of City Hall. The current dimensions of the garden are 24 feet long by 16 feet wide. The company plans to make the garden area larger by planting a border of flowers all the way around the existing garden. The border will have the same width around the entire garden.
a.) Let x represent the width of the border. Write expressions for the length and the width of the new garden space (after the border has been added) in terms of x.
length = ________
width = _______
b.)Write a trinomial that represents the area of the new garden space (after the border has been added).
c.) Write a polynomial expression that represents the area of the border of the landscape company plans to add.