SOLUTION: a piece of cloth must be cut to exactly cover a square table. The area of the table is 27ft suared. Find the length of the side of the table to the nearest tenth of a foot

Question 156233: a piece of cloth must be cut to exactly cover a square table. The area of the table is 27ft suared. Find the length of the side of the table to the nearest tenth of a foot
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a piece of cloth must be cut to exactly cover a square table. The area of the table is 27ft suared. Find the length of the side of the table to the nearest tenth of a foot
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To solve this problem, the problem expected you to know:
1. all four sides of a square table are equal in length
2. area of a square table is "length of one side" squared.
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Let x = length of thee side of the table
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Since the problem told us that the area of the table is 27 square feet we get:

x = 5.2 feet

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