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Question 1201212: A square having an area of nine square cm is centered inside a square having an area of twenty-five square cm. How much space is between the larger square and the smaller square on each side? Found 4 solutions by mananth, josgarithmetic, greenestamps, ikleyn:Answer by mananth(16946) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! No "space" is between their borders. Between their borders is some "area". Simply subtract the smaller from the larger, since you HAVE the values.
The larger square has a side length of 5 cm; the smaller has a side length of 3 cm. Since the smaller square is centered inside the larger square, the space between the borders of the two squares is 1 cm wide.
By the way, the problem's formulation is DEFECTIVE in this post.
Indeed, it says that the small square is centered inside the large square,
but does not say that the sides of the small square are parallel to the sides of the large square.
Without it, the conception itself " of the space between " as a distance MAKES no SENSE.
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