Question

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A horizontally aligned rectangle is shown as 10 meters long and 6 meters wide. A rectangular area is removed from the bottom right corner, with the remaining length as 8 meters and remaining width as 4 meters. Right angle marks are shown in the five corners of the composite shape.

Rebekah designs a playing field for a new sport. The playing field is pictured. What is the area of the playing field?

(1 point)
Responses

58 square meters
58 square meters

56 square meters
56 square meters

32 square meters
32 square meters

60 square meters

Answer 1

The full rectangle is 10 × 6 = 60 m². The removed corner is (10 − 8) by (6 − 4) = 2 × 2 = 4 m².
So the playing field area = 60 − 4 = 56 m².