Christmas MT's answer to daffodilx's Secondary 4 E Maths question.

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Very tedious steps, but otherwise straightforward to solve.
Split the shaded regions into 2 rectangles, and from there, find the area of each region and equate to 240 square centimetres.
Simplification was done at the end by removing a (-3) to arrive at desired equation (an odd step).