Question

A painting is made of 3 concentric squares. The side length of the largest square is 24 cm. What is the area of the painting?

Answer 1

The area of a square is $s^{2}$

Hence, the area of the painting is 576$cm^{3}$

Concentric means that the squares are nested inside each other and are equidistant from each other. With reference to this question, the detail is necessary. It's trying to divert your attention, which is what makes this question seem confusing at first

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