SOLUTION: A 5 cm by 5cm square piece of cardboard was cut from a bigger square cardboard. The area of the remaining cardboard was 50 m square . If s represents the length of the bigger card
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Question 891637: A 5 cm by 5cm square piece of cardboard was cut from a bigger square cardboard. The area of the remaining cardboard was 50 m square . If s represents the length of the bigger card board which of the following expressions gives the area of the remaining piece?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39799) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Originally the area was or same as .
A 5*5 square cm piece was cut out from the original piece. Do this in meters, because the final remaining quantity is given in meters.
square meters originally.
Remove square meters.
How much remains:
, all in square meters.
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