SOLUTION: The Area of the square if 64 square feet. what is the length oh one side?

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Question 700751: The Area of the square if 64 square feet. what is the length oh one side?
Answer by neatmath(302) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!

The formula for the area of a square is

So we can use this to solve for s if we know the Area:

So we know that length of one side (actually all 4 sides) is 8 ft.

We also knew to use the positive square root of 64,

as distance MUST be a positive number (in most cases).

I hope this helps! Keep practicing! :)

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