Question

What is the area of the shaded part of the figure?

A.
144 mm²

B.
288 mm²

C.
432 mm²

D.
720 mm²

Answer 1

The answer is A. 144. I came up with this by finding the area of the unshaded figure. That area is 144. Then, I came up with the area of the triangle. That's is 288. Finally, I subtracted the area of the triangle from the area of the square. 288-144=144.