SOLUTION: A square piece of glass has an area of 16 square centimeters. How long is each side of the piece of glass?
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Question 1099793: A square piece of glass has an area of 16 square centimeters. How long is each side of the piece of glass?
Answer by math_helper(2461) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The area of a square is the length of one of its sides squared:
So you have
and want to find s. To do that, you must take the square root of both sides:
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Ans: Each side is
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