SOLUTION: A coffee table is shaped like a square and has an area of 22 square feet. Find the length of the side of the table to the nearest tenth of a foot?

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Question 646959: A coffee table is shaped like a square and has an area of 22 square feet. Find the length of the side of the table to the nearest tenth of a foot?
Answer by colliefan(242) About Me  (Show Source):
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If the table is a square, all the sides are equal and the area is the length of one side squared.
A=l^2
The length must then be the square root of the area. The square root of 22 square feet is 4.6904 feet. Rounded to the nearest tenth, that is 4.69 feet.