Two circles are inscribed on the inside of a rectangle and are side-by-side. What is the area of the shaded region?

A certain rectangle is 4 times as long as it is wide. Suppose the length and the width of this rectangle are both halved. The area of the first rectangle is how many times as large than the area of the second rectangle?

A gardener is tending to a garden in the shape of a regular octagon. Its apothem is ft. What is the area of the garden?

Third grader Sammy drew a house by drawing a square with an equilateral triangle on top. The bottom of the square is long. Sammy would like to know the area of the house in order to procure the appropriately sized crayon to color it in.

Which of the following is nearest to the area of the house in square centimeters?