Question 23
A 10 cm by 18 cm piece of paper is folded twice into a 10 cm by 4.5 cm stack of thickness 4, as shown in Figure 1. Eight 1 cm by 3 cm holes, two of which are adjacent, are cut from the stack, as shown in Figure 2. When the stack is unfolded, as shown in Figure 3, what is the area, in cm² , of this piece of punctured paper?
