Question

What is the area of the shaded region? (picture)

Answer 1

The correct answer is 16. The way i got this is simply by multiplying the two given numbers of the shaded area which is 4, and 4 x 4 is 16. :)

Answer 2

16-
`x^(2)`

Explanation:

Take the area of the whole square (4x4=16) and subtract the area of the smaller square (
`x^(2)`)