Harriet has a square piece of paper. She folds it in half to form a rectangle and then in half again to form a second rectangle (which is not a square). The perimeter of the second rectangle is 30 cm. What is the area of the original square?
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36 cm²
64 cm²
81 cm²
100 cm²
144 cm²
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