answer:You have 36 meters of fence, which you want to use to enclose a garden. You decide to make a long, skinny garden. It’s 17 m long and 1 m wide. The area of your garden is 17×1 = 17 m sq. Instead, you change your mind and create a square garden, 9 m on each side. The area of your garden is 9×9 = 81 m sq.