2006-10-05 05:02:34 · 19 answers · asked by eleni s 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
A meter is a unit of length. A square meter is a unit of area.
For example, a rectangle with length 3m and width 5m has area 15m^2, or 15 square meters.
2006-10-05 05:05:39 · answer #1 · answered by James L 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you referring to the area of a two dimensional space, calculated in meters? As in 18 square meters (written as m to the power of 2). Then it is simply the length in meters multiplied to the breadth in meters. A square where the length and breadth is both 1 meters each, would have an area of a square meter.
2006-10-05 12:07:39 · answer #2 · answered by the_sunil 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A square metre is the unit measure of area of any 2 dimensional trigonometric shape (eg: a rectangle with sides of 2 metres and 0.5 metres has an area of 1 square metre, a rectangle which has sides of 2 metres and 4 metres has an area of 8 square metres).
What most on here are talking about (a square with all sides of 1 metre) is a metre square - not a square metre.
A 2 metre square, would be a square with each side being 2 metres, but would have an area of 4 square metres.
There is a subtle but very real diference.
Hope I have cleared up your little problem.
2006-10-05 13:13:09 · answer #3 · answered by Andrew W 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take four meter sticks. Lie them out, perpendicular to each other, touching only at the tips, like the outside of a square. What is inside is a square meter.
2006-10-05 12:05:16 · answer #4 · answered by bequalming 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A square meter is a unit of measure of area. One square meter is measured as a square, or box, with each side being exactly one meter long.
2006-10-05 12:06:09 · answer #5 · answered by Johnny2071 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1 m = 100cm
therefore, a square meter is a measuring instrument that happens to be square
in america a square meter = 10,000 square centimeters
2006-10-06 03:49:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The square meter (also spelled metre, see spelling differences) is the SI derived unit of area, with symbol m².
It is defined as the area of a square whose sides measure exactly one metre.
The square metre is derived from the SI base unit of the metre, which in turn is defined as the length of the path travelled by light in absolute vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second.
A square metre is equal to:
0.000 001 square kilometre (km²)
10,000 square centimetres (cm²)
0.000 1 hectares (ha)
0.01 ares (a)
1 centiare (ca)
0.000 247 105 381 acres
1.195 990 square yards
10.763 911 square feet
1,550.003 1 square inches
for more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_meter
2006-10-05 12:18:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is a square with each side measuring one meter.
2006-10-05 12:10:10 · answer #8 · answered by Jim K 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
a measurement of one meter down times one meter across.
2006-10-05 12:14:35 · answer #9 · answered by michelle a 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A square meter is a square : 1m by 1m, or 100cm by 100cm. It equals also 10 000 cm2
2006-10-05 17:09:27 · answer #10 · answered by Alicja K 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋