Gita splits a 2 m wide path around a 15 m × 10 m lawn into four side strips and four corner squares. How much area do the four corner squares add together?

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16 m². Each corner square is 2 m × 2 m = 4 m². Four of them = 16 m². (Whole path = 2 × (15 + 10) × 2 + 16 = 116 m².)

Gita splits a 2 m wide path around a 15 m × 10 m lawn into four side strips and four corner squares. How much area do the four corner squares add together?

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