SOLUTION: How do you find the area of a square if its perimeter is 40m?

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Question 443741: How do you find the area of a square if its perimeter is 40m?
Answer by swincher4391(1107)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If you have a square with perimeter 40m, remember that each side of a square is the same, by definition. Then each side is 40m/4 = 10m. So .
Now the area of a square is

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