Areas of composite shapes - Subtract areas

Question

The side of a square piece of cloth is 2 m long. How much cloth will remain after a parallelogram of base length 1.75 m and height 1.2 m has been cut from the cloth?

Answer 1

1.9 m² remaining!

Answer 2

2^2 - 1.75(1.2)

= 4- 2.1

= 1.9 square meters left