{"id":20320,"date":"2026-05-22T00:51:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T18:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/a-design-has-a-square-of-side-12-cm-attached-to-a-rectangle-8-cm-by-3-cm-what-is-the-total-area\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T00:51:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T18:51:49","slug":"a-design-has-a-square-of-side-12-cm-attached-to-a-rectangle-8-cm-by-3-cm-what-is-the-total-area","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/a-design-has-a-square-of-side-12-cm-attached-to-a-rectangle-8-cm-by-3-cm-what-is-the-total-area\/","title":{"rendered":"A design has a square of side 12 cm attached to a rectangle 8 cm by 3 cm. What is the total area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A design has a square of side 12 cm attached to a rectangle 8 cm by 3 cm. What is the total area?<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"quiz-options wp-block-list\">\n<li>300 cm\u00b2<\/li>\n<li>168 cm\u00b2<\/li>\n<li>180 cm\u00b2<\/li>\n<li>144 cm\u00b2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[2841,2859],"subject":[2746],"education_level":[2494],"class_list":["post-20320","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-area-of-square","topic-composite-area","subject-mensuration","education_level-grade-6"],"mcq_note":"Add the two separate areas: square area 12\u00d712 = 144; rectangle area 8\u00d73 = 24; total = 168 cm\u00b2. For a shaded or remaining part, find each simple area first, then subtract the part that is removed. Treat the square and rectangle as two separate simple shapes. Add their areas only if they are attached without overlapping, and keep the answer in square units.","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"300 cm\u00b2"},{"right":"yes","answer":"168 cm\u00b2"},{"right":"no","answer":"180 cm\u00b2"},{"right":"no","answer":"144 cm\u00b2"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":2746,"title":"Mensuration","slug":"mensuration"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":2841,"title":"Area of Square","slug":"area-of-square"},{"id":2859,"title":"Composite Area","slug":"composite-area"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/20320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mcq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=20320"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=20320"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=20320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}