{"id":20941,"date":"2026-05-25T16:49:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/composite-area-with-square-cutout-9\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T16:49:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:49:50","slug":"composite-area-with-square-cutout-9","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/composite-area-with-square-cutout-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Composite Area with Square Cutout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A rectangular cardboard is 48 cm by 10 cm. A square of side 2 cm is cut from it. What area remains?<\/p>\n<ul class=\"quiz-options\">\n<li>480 cm\u00b2<\/li>\n<li>484 cm\u00b2<\/li>\n<li>108 cm\u00b2<\/li>\n<li>476 cm\u00b2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[2780,2823],"subject":[2746],"education_level":[1894],"class_list":["post-20941","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-area","topic-composite-figures","subject-mensuration","education_level-grade-8"],"mcq_note":"First find the rectangle area: 48 \u00d7 10 = 480. The cut-out square area is 2 \u00d7 2 = 4. Remaining area = 480 \u2212 4 = 476 square cm. For composite figures, split the shape into simple parts or subtract the removed part. Here the square is cut out, so its area must be subtracted from the rectangle area, not added. So the correct choice is 476 cm\u00b2.","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"480 cm\u00b2"},{"right":"no","answer":"484 cm\u00b2"},{"right":"no","answer":"108 cm\u00b2"},{"right":"yes","answer":"476 cm\u00b2"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":2746,"title":"Mensuration","slug":"mensuration"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":2780,"title":"Area","slug":"area"},{"id":2823,"title":"Composite Figures","slug":"composite-figures"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/20941","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=20941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=20941"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=20941"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=20941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}