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what dose "square area" mean?

Brandi Penton

2007-05-10 08:09:33 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference Homework Help

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The terminology square area is redundant. The word area implies a length multiplied over a width, so that also implies a unit (feet, miles, meters, kilometers, etc.) has been squared. It is not necessary to say both. The area of any surface is simply its width multiplied by its width:

A = l x w or A = lw.

Although this concept sounds easy, it is not always the case. Many surfaces have irregular shapes and determining their area can be quite difficult to do. For example, suppose you needed to buy fertilizer for your heavily landscaped back yard, which contains many curved shapes for beds, etc. Determining how much fertilizer to buy could become quite a daunting task. That's where calculus sometimes comes in handy. Also, we can break a surface up into pieces approximating shapes whose areas we can find to a reasonable degree of accuracy. Then we simply add them together and perhaps allow for a small margin of error due to approximation.

2007-05-10 08:48:36 · answer #1 · answered by MathBioMajor 7 · 0 0

Width+Height+Length

2007-05-10 08:13:13 · answer #2 · answered by Sptfyr 7 · 0 2

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