To calculate area of a square

  a)How many squares are on the row of the figure shown?  =                    
    
  b)How many squares are on the column of the figure shown?  =              
    
  c) Count all the squares in the figure shown. How many squares do we have?  =                
    
  d)Now take the number of rows (4) x column (4). What do you get?  =