1993 AMC 8 Problem 13
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13.
The word "HELP" in block letters is painted as a shaded region with strokes unit wide on a by rectangular sign. Each letter is units wide with a -unit gap between letters, as shown. The area of the unshaded portion of the sign, in square units, is
Answer: D
Difficulty rating: 960
Solution:
The full sign has area square units. Counting the shaded unit squares in each letter gives and for a shaded total of
The unshaded area is
Thus, the correct answer is D .
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