geometry question?

Question

The area of a square is 26 km^2. Find the length of a side. Round your answer to one decimal place.

Answer 1

Since all 4 sides of a square are the same length (call it 's'), the area is the length (s) times the width (s), or s²:

A = s² = 26km²

s = √(26km²) = √26 km ≈ 5.0990195135927848300282241090228 km

Rounded to one decimal place, s = 5.1 km.

Answer 2

A square has 4 sides of equal length. Since area is calculated by multiplying the length of two sides together...if the length of a side is x km, then x * x = 26 km^2
So basically just take the square root of 26 and thats what it is.

Answer 3

Pretty easy

If it is a square, both sides are the same length, and the area is the width X the length. Therefore, the length of one (actually all 4) side is the square root of 26...I'll let you do the calculation

Answer 4

Since the area of a square = side squared, take the square root of 26, which equals 5.09901... and round to the tenths place, which is 5.1.

Answer 5

area for a square = length of a side x length of a side

since all 4 sides of a square is equal in length, it can also be written as:

area of a square = (length of a side)^2

therefore, 26 = (length of a side)^2

length of a side = √26
= 5.099...
= 5.1

Answer 6

a^2 = 26 => a= 5.1 km

Answer 7

Let x be the side length, then
x^2 = 26 km^2
x = sqr[26] km ~ 5.1 km

Answer 8

s^2 = 26 km^2

So, s = 5.1 km (rounded to 1 decimal place).

HTH

Charles

Answer 9

Area of a square = side * side
26= s^2
s=5.1 km

Answer 10

side = sqrt(26) =5.1 km rounded to one decimal place