Question

Find the area of the shaded region

Answer 1

Answer: D. The area is 50 square meters if the shaded area looks like .

Explanation:
assuming this is a rectangle, the larger region area is 15*5= 75 square meters.
The smaller region’s area would be 10*5= 50 square meters.
• remember that A=lw, where l is length and w is width.


Without an illustration & on the assumption this is a rectangular region, here are the conclusions:
• given these two areas,
If the shaded area looks like , the area is just 50 square meters because the dimensions needed to solve for the area were given.
OR
• If the shaded region looks like subtract the smaller area from the larger one: 75-50= 25 square meters. (However, given that this is not an answer choice, I don’t think the illustration would look like this).