Question

A child and her mother are at the park. The child walks around the rectangular park while her mom waits on a bench. The child returns to the bench, finishing her walk at the same place she started. The park is 411 meters wide and 475 meters long. What distance did the child walk?

Answer 1

475 x 2 = 950
411 x 2 = 822
950 + 822 = 1772, there you go hun!

Answer 2

Answer:

1772 meters was the distance the chield walked

Explanation:

The length of the area the child walked is given:  

475 meters wide and 411 meters long.

The problem also says, the child starts at point A (where mom is) and it ends at  in the same point A.

With this information, the distance the child walked was the whole rectangle: 411 (wide) + 475(long) + 411 (wide) + 475(long).

This means, the operation should be the following:

(475 x 2) + (411 x 2)  =  1772 meters