this 1 always stumped me what is meant by a square foot or square metre etc?

Answer 1

If you have a rectangle of floor space that is 4 feet wide and 2 feet deep, that would be 4*2 = 8 square feet.

Square Foot or Square Meter is a measure of AREA covered.

Answer 2

A square foot, meter, mile, kilometer .. etc is an area of a surface.

e.g. If you have a pathway with a width of 6 feet (metres, or whatever), and a Length of 25 feet (metres, or whatever)

Its Area is its Width x its Length.

= 6' x 25' = 150 square feet. (or square meter or whatever)

This means that if the pathway was made using slabs, each forming a square 1 ft wide by 1 ft long you would need 150 slabs to make your pathway. (As already stated, the units can be any you wish) but, the width and length units must be the same .. Inches x Inches, Feet x Feet .. etc..

Taking our example. The width is 6 feet = 72 inches.

You cannot find its area by saying 72 inches x 25 feet.

Happy now ?

Answer 3

a square foot is the AREA of a square with each side being 1 foot ( or of a rectangle which is 2 by1/2 etc )

a square yard is the AREA of a square that is 1yard by 1 yard, or 3 feet by 3 feet, so is the same as 9 square feet. Just visualising tiling it with 1 ft by 1 ft squares.

a square metre is a little larger.

Answer 4

A square foot is a square which is one foot on each side. An area that is said to contain four square feet would be two feet by two feet. In other words to find the square footage of an are simply multiply the length of two adjacent sides. The same applies if you measure in meters.

Answer 5

units such as feet and meters measure length, i.e. linear distance in one dimension

in two dimensions, the concept of area is useful. consider a rectangle. the area is defined as the length multiplied by the width. both the length and width are measured using the one-dimensional type units as above.
for example say the rectangle is 5 feet long by 3 feet wide
Area = 5 feet * 3 feet = 3*5 (feet * feet) = 15 feet^2 (or square feet)
we can't just drop the units, they get multiplied too
now we could define a new unit for measuring area, in fact some already exist (for example "acre" used for measuring areas of land, "barn" for very small cross sectional areas of atoms), but the fact remains that such units are based on the more fundamental one-dimensional units

we can continue into the third dimension. the volume of a cube is the length times the width times the height. each of those would be measured with a linear unit such as feet. the resulting volume unit would be feet^3, or cubic feet

Answer 6

A square foot is a measure of area.
A square foot is one foot long and one foot wide - you may have tiles in your basement that are exactly one square foot.

You can also calculate square feet. Let's say your room is 10' by 12'. Then its area is 10'*12' = 120 square feet.

When you multiply feet by feet, you get square feet.
If you multiply square feet by feet (say room height), you get cubic feet, which is a measure of volume.

Answer 7

A square foot is exactly that: a square in which each side is exactly 1 foot long.

With the other length measurements, meters, yards, miles, etc. it is the same pattern.

HTH

Charles

Answer 8

Square before any unit of length (e.g. square meter, square mile, etc) means an area size of a box (or square) with each side one meter (or what ever unit is there) long.

Answer 9

it means it has 4 sides which are either a foot long each or a metre each long

Answer 10

its like 2 squared is 4 (2x2) you multiply the number by its self but if is like 4 to the 4th then it 4x4x4x4 it quite simple really but you'll catch on