Miguel is building a doghouse. He cuts one sheet of wood to make the front wall. He also cuts out a door that is 2 feet by 2 feet. The dimensions, in feet, are shown in the diagram.

Miguel needs to paint the wood. What is the area he needs to paint?
1. What is the area of the rectangular piece of wood before the square is cut out? Include units with your answer. Write your answer in the space below.

Raj encoded a secret phrase using matrix multiplication. using a = 1, b = 2, c = 3, and so on, he multiplied the clear text code for each letter by the matrix to get a matrix that represents the encoded text. the matrix representing the encoded text is . what is the secret phrase? determine the location of spaces after you decode the text. yummy is the corn the tomato is red the corn is yummy red is the tomato