Question

The side of the small squares is $1$ cm. Find the total area covered by the shaded region.

Answer 1

There are $2$ rectangles, each of these rectangles contains $8$ square boxes in total

The side of each square box is $1$ cm

thus area of each square $=1$ sq cm

Then the area of each rectangle will be $(8\times 1)sq.cm=8sq.cm$

Thus the area of $2$ rectangles $=(2\times 8)sq.cm=16sq.cm$

Hence, the area of the shaded region is $16sq.cm$