Provide an Appropriate Response $x + 2$ , Which Means That the Area of the Largest Square

question 80

Multiple Choice

Provide an appropriate response.
-Consider the following figure, which is a square divided into two squares and two rectangles.

The length of each side of the large square is $x + 2$ , which means that the area of the largest square is $( x + 2 ) ^ { 2 }$ . Use the formulas for the area of a square and the area of a rectangle to write the area of the largest square as a trinomial that represents the sum of the areas of the four figures that comprise it.

• A) \(x ^ { 2 } - 2 x + 4\)
• B) \(x ^ { 2 } + 4 x + 4\)
• C) \(x ^ { 2 } + 2 x + 4\)
• D) \(x ^ { 2 } + x + 4\)

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