Grid showing 30 out of 100 squares shaded, representing 30%.

Let me carefully examine the image to understand what the problem is asking.

The image shows a grid of squares:
- On the left, there's a vertical column of 8 blue squares.
- At the bottom, there's a horizontal row of 8 tan squares.
- The bottom-left square is brown (where the blue column and tan row intersect).
- The rest of the grid (the large area to the right and above) is black/empty.

This looks like a visual representation of multiplication or area — specifically, it appears to be showing 8 × 8 = 64, but with the overlapping corner counted only once.

Wait — let me count more precisely:

- Blue column: 8 squares tall.
- Tan row: 8 squares wide.
- The intersection (bottom-left) is brown, meaning it's shared — not double-counted.

So total colored squares = blue (8) + tan (8) − overlap (1) = 15.

But that seems too small for a typical math problem. Alternatively, maybe it's representing a rectangle of 8 rows by 8 columns, and the colored parts are just the border? Let me reconsider.

Actually, looking again:
- Leftmost column: 8 blue squares (rows 1 to 8).
- Bottom row: 8 tan squares (columns 1 to 8), but column 1, row 8 is brown (not blue or tan), so it's the overlap cell.
- So the grid is at least 8×8.
- The black region suggests the interior is empty — so this could be the perimeter of an 8×8 square.

Perimeter of an n×n square (counting unit squares along the edge) is: top row (n) + bottom row (n) + left column (n−2, excluding corners already counted) + right column (n−2) = 4n − 4.

For n = 8: 4×8 − 4 = 32 − 4 = 28.

But in the image, we only see left column (8) and bottom row (8), with overlap (1). That’s only 15 visible colored squares. Unless the top row and right column are implied but not drawn (black)? That seems unlikely.

Alternatively, maybe it's a multiplication diagram: 8 (height) × 8 (width) = 64 total cells, and the colored ones represent something else.

Wait — perhaps the task is simply: *How many squares are shaded (colored)?*

Let me zoom in to count accurately.