SOLUTION
Given the question in the question tab, the following are the solution steps to get the total area of the cookie in terms of squares.
STEP 1: Compute the area of each of the squares
[tex]\begin{gathered} \text{1 square has length of 2 inches and width of 2 inches} \\ \text{Area of a unit square will be 2}\times2=4inches^2 \end{gathered}[/tex]
STEP 2: Get the total number of squares covered by the cookie
The total number of squares in the big squares equal 6x9=54 squares.
Then we proceed to count the out squares
