A square patio has a side length of (x-8) feet. it is surrounded by a garden with a uniform width. the side length of the entire square area including the patio and the flower garden is (x+8) feet. enter an expression for the area of the flower garden.

Answerthe simplified expression isexplanationthe given expression is,let us deal with the bracket first.the two negatives in the parenthesis will become positive.the expression now becomes,we now expand the parenthesis to get,we group like terms to obtain,this simplifies to,