Question

What will be the area of the following figure?

a) 27 sq. cm b) 36 sq. cm

c) 38 sq. cm d) 76 sq. cm​

Answer 1

The area of a square that has a side-length of 1 cm is 1 square centimetre (or 1 cm2). To find the area of a square by the method of counting squares, we divide the square into smaller squares of one centimetre side-length . Consider a square that has a side-length of 4 cm.