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Lois built a rectangular flower bed.
She used four boards for the border of the flower bed.
Two of the boards were 8 feet long.
The other boards were 16 feet long.
The area of the flower bed using these boards was ___
She decided to cut each board in half to make two square flower beds.
The area of the smaller square flower bed was ___
The area of the larger flower bed was ___
Did one or two flower beds give Lois more total area to plant flowers? ___