SOLUTION: The area of a square is twice the perimeter of an equilateral triangle. If the length of each side of the triangle is 48 meters, find the length of each side of the square. Show yo

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Question 953781: The area of a square is twice the perimeter of an equilateral triangle. If the length of each side of the triangle is 48 meters, find the length of each side of the square. Show your complete solution.
Answer by macston(5194)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Area And perimeter cannot be compared in this way, as perimeter is a linear term and area is two dimensional.A square foot is not a foot. There is no way to solve this problem as given.
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