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In the figure above, all triangles have the same area. If the area of the shaded region is 84, and the area of square PQRS is 100, what is the total area of the regions outlined by the heavy line?

(A) 16
(B) 92
(C) 108
(D) 116
(E) 132

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Can you please explain how come the area is 132?
Is it a wrong OA or something that everyone is missing out on.

Answer clearly seems to be 116.

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In the figure above, all triangles have the same area. If the area of the shaded region is 84, and the area of square PQRS is 100, what is the total area of the regions outlined by the heavy line?

(A) 16
(B) 92
(C) 108
(D) 116
(E) 132

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Can you please explain how come the area is 132?
Is it a wrong OA or something that everyone is missing out on.

Answer clearly seems to be 116.

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The OA is D. Edited. Thank you.
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We don't need to really get into the entire calculations for this question. The area of the shaded region is 84. => the area of the 4 triangles which are not included in the area of the shaded region is 100 - 84 = 16.

In the heavy border area, there are just those extra 4 triangles whose area is nothing but 16.

=> Total area = 100 + 16 = 116.

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