SOLUTION: What are the dimensions of a square that encloses the same area as a rectangle that is two miles long and one mile wide? Answer to the nearest inch.

Question 948067: What are the dimensions of a square that encloses the same area as a rectangle that
is two miles long and one mile wide? Answer to the nearest inch.

Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
What are the dimensions of a square that encloses the same area as a rectangle that is two miles long and one mile wide?
Answer to the nearest inch.
:
Find the area of rectangle 2 * 1 = 2 sq/mi
Convert the area to sq/ft 2 * 5280^2 = 55756800 sq/ft
Find the side of a square of this area
s =
s = 7467.0476 ft
Convert .0476 ft to inches
.0476(12) = .57 ~ 1 inch
the answer
7467 ft 1 inch is the side of the square with the same area as the rectangle

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