{"id":21107,"date":"2026-05-25T16:52:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/composite-area-with-square-cutout-16\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T16:52:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:52:06","slug":"composite-area-with-square-cutout-16","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/composite-area-with-square-cutout-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Composite Area with Square Cutout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A rectangular cardboard is 60 cm by 6 cm. A square of side 2 cm is cut from it. What area remains?<\/p>\n<ul class=\"quiz-options\">\n<li>124 cm\u00b2<\/li>\n<li>356 cm\u00b2<\/li>\n<li>364 cm\u00b2<\/li>\n<li>360 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-21107","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-area","topic-composite-figures","subject-mensuration","education_level-grade-8"],"mcq_note":"First find the rectangle area: 60 \u00d7 6 = 360. The cut-out square area is 2 \u00d7 2 = 4. Remaining area = 360 \u2212 4 = 356 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 356 cm\u00b2.","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"124 cm\u00b2"},{"right":"yes","answer":"356 cm\u00b2"},{"right":"no","answer":"364 cm\u00b2"},{"right":"no","answer":"360 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\/21107","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=21107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=21107"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=21107"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=21107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}