Hi Joy Shaha,
This question is a bit oddly worded, but the 'intent' is to see whether you 'double-count' the overlapping space or not (the part that is covered by BOTH the roads in the 'corner' of the rectangle).
To start, we have a rectangle that is 200m x 120m. There's a 5m wide road that runs the entire length of the rectangle and one that runs the entire width of the rectangle. The areas of the individual roads are...
(5m)(200m) = 1000 m^2
(5m)(120m) = 600 m^2
However, these two roads 'overlap', creating a (5m)(5m) = 25 m^2 space in the corner in which they meet. That space is included in BOTH of those calculations though, so we have to remove one iteration of it. This leaves us with a total 'road area' of...
1000 + 600 - 25 = 1575 m^2
Final Answer: D
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Rich
