The park district is paying to enlarge the area of a square-shaped dock at a local lake. The area of the dock will increase by 16 square feet. Complete the equ

Question

The park district is paying to enlarge the area of a square-shaped dock at a local lake. The area of the dock will increase by 16 square feet.

Complete the equation below that can be used to find the area, x, of the original dock if the side length of the new dock is 20 feet

Answer 1

This seems like a fairly bad question, and it's obvious that you omitted the "equation below".  Forget about it!