SOLUTION: Explain how you would find the length of one side of a square if the area is 16 square units.

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Question 405890: Explain how you would find the length of one side of a square if the area is 16 square units.
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"Explain how you would find the length of one side of a square if the area is 16 square units."

Area of a square is s^2, where s is the length of one side.

If s^2 = 16,
then s = 4 {took the square root of both sides}

one side is 4 units, if the area is 16 square units
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