Answer: 9 ab is the area of the garden.
No scale or dimensions are given, so
Estimating to get a practical, reasonable answer:
Using typical walkway widths to 6 ft, it is reasonable to calculate the area the red triangle to be 486 square feet
and the area of the garden to be about 4400 square feet, rounding up.
OR
Using a metric standard of 2 meters, The area of the red triangle would be 54m²
The area of the garden would be about 500m²
Step-by-step explanation:
The area of the red triangle is [tex]A = \frac{ab}{2}[/tex] That is assuming that it is a right triangle and side a is the altitude or height of the triangle and side b is the base.
The measurements of the triangle are approximately in the proportion of 3, 4, 5, a typical "Pythagorean Triple" right triangle.
Estimating from rough measurements of the triangle and the dimensions of the garden as shown, it appears that the area of the garden is about 18 times the area of the red triangle.
The area of the triangle is half the area of a rectangle with the same side lengths a & b, so 9 ab is a good estimate of the area of the garden.
If the walkways are the typical 6 foot width found in many public gardens, and the length side b is the about 6 of those widths, and side a is about 4.5 of those widths, we can estimate the altitude to be 27 and the base to be 36 (in the proportion 3:4).
Area of the triangle estimate: A = 36ft × 27ft /2 = 486 square feet
OR
Using a metric standard, estimate a 2 meter wide sidewalk, the area of the triangle can be reasonably calculated to be A = 9m × 12m /2 = 54 m²
The area of the garden would be 9 × 54 = 486m² rounded reasonably to 500m²
