Gauge pressure vs Absolute help please?

7. The weight of a car of mass 1.20 × 10^3 kg is supported equally by the four tires,

which are inflated to the same gauge pressure. What gauge pressure in the tires is

required so the area of contact of each tire with the road is 1.00 × 10^2 cm^2? (1 atm = 1.01

× 10^5 Pa.)

A) 11.6 × 10^5 Pa

B) 11.6 × 10^4 Pa

C) 2.94 × 10^5 Pa

D) 2.94 × 10^4 Pa

E) 2.94 × 10^3 Pa

The answer is C according to my professor

Here's my question, isn't that the absolute pressure ? 

Isn't the total pressure exerted by the tires = to gauge pressure+atm ?

By doing Force / 4A 

aren't I getting the total pressure ?