SOLUTION: A square sandbox has an area of 25 ft.². A rectangular sandbox has the same width as the square sandbox, but has a length of 8 feet. What would be the area of the rectangular sandb

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Question 1044422: A square sandbox has an area of 25 ft.². A rectangular sandbox has the same width as the square sandbox, but has a length of 8 feet. What would be the area of the rectangular sandbox?
Answer by addingup(3677)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A square sandbox = 25ft^2 Take the square root: sqrt25= 5 is the length of each side of the box.
The rectangle is 8ft long:
8*5 = use your calculator to get the area of the rectangular sandbox

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