{"id":21063,"date":"2026-05-25T16:52:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/composite-area-with-square-cutout-14\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T16:52:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:52:04","slug":"composite-area-with-square-cutout-14","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/composite-area-with-square-cutout-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Composite Area with Square Cutout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A rectangular cardboard is 58 m by 12 m. A square of side 4 m is cut from it. What area remains?<\/p>\n<ul class=\"quiz-options\">\n<li>712 m\u00b2<\/li>\n<li>680 m\u00b2<\/li>\n<li>124 m\u00b2<\/li>\n<li>696 m\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-21063","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-area","topic-composite-figures","subject-mensuration","education_level-grade-8"],"mcq_note":"First find the rectangle area: 58 \u00d7 12 = 696. The cut-out square area is 4 \u00d7 4 = 16. Remaining area = 696 \u2212 16 = 680 square m. 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 680 m\u00b2.","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"712 m\u00b2"},{"right":"yes","answer":"680 m\u00b2"},{"right":"no","answer":"124 m\u00b2"},{"right":"no","answer":"696 m\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\/21063","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=21063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=21063"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=21063"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=21063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}