Sam wants to build a square wooden stage. His original plan for a stage x feet long and x feet wide had to be made smaller to fit the space. The stage needs to be 10 feet narrower and 2 feet shorter than his original plan. Which multiplication problem represents this situation? What is the area of the smaller stage?
Both brackets must have minus since it has to be shorter and narrower. So that leaves us with Options A and D D is expanded wrong since -2x+-10x =-12x and not -8x. So the answer is Option A
