My teacher says that the area of a square is 25/36s inches squared.....?

Question

She askes what is the length of the side. I say the answer is 25/36, but she says that the answer is 5/6.
Who is right?
please help
I am stuck because I dont know whether to accuse myself of being wrong or my teacher!?!

Answer 1

Sorry, you are wrong.

A square of side S has an area of S^2, right?

So, a square of side 5/6 inches, will have an area of (5/6)^2 or 25/36 inch^2, right?

Answer 2

The area of a square is A=s^2.
You know the area, A, and you want to figure out the length of the side.

Setup:
A=s^2

Substitute the Area, which was given to you:

(25/36) inches squared=s^2

For fractions, multiplication takes place across (Example: 2/3 times 2/3 is 4/9). You want to take the square root of each side to solve for s.

So...knowing this fact, what could you separate the fraction into to be a perfect square?

(5/6)*(5/6)=(5/6)^2=(25/36)

Plug that back in:

(5/6)^2 inches squared=s^2

Take the square root of both sides:

(5/6) inches = s

So, the side of the square, s, is equal to (5/6).

Answer 3

If the side of a square is 5/6, then the area of the square is
5/6 x 5/6 or 25/36

What is interesting about area of a square is that anytime the side is less than 1, then the area is going to be SMALLER than the value of the side. 25/36 is smaller than 5/6.

Answer 4

well guess what, she's right. Area of a square is the length of a side, squared. (5/6)^2 = 25/36, so the length of a side is 5/6

Answer 5

If the area of the square is 25/36 then the length of each side is the square root of 25/36. so 5/6 is the correct answer.
A= S^2
Where A is the area and S is the length of a side. so
25/36 = S^2
take the square root of both sides and you have
5/6=S

Answer 6

the answer is 5/6

think about it..
length x width = area square units
and a square as equal sides so
length^2 = 25/36
square root it and you get 5/6

to check answer.. 5/6 x 5/6 = 25/36

Answer 7

Hello,

To find the area of a square we need to take side time side or side squared. so s^2 = 25/36 now taking the square root of both sides gives us 5/6. She is correct.

Hope This Helps!

Answer 8

Wow, deja vu...
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071016181557AA2Dte7

Your teacher is right. Think about it: how do you determine the area of a square when you're given the length? Would the area of a cube that's 25/36 on an edge give you an area of 25/36? No, but a cube that's 5/6 on an edge would.

Answer 9

YOUR TEACHER IS ALWAYS RIGHT! Well thats true until you get into high school and you're retarded spanish teacher teaches you "Frespainglis", a combination of french spanish and english, in which case YOU are always right.

she is
sqr 25/ sqr 36
you find the square root of both the numerator and the denominator

the area is L^2
or L*L=a
L*L=25/36 in^2
L=5/6

Answer 10

She is right

area = a^2
a^2 =25/36 = (5^2/6^2) = (5/6)^2

if a*a = (5/6)*(5/6) where * =multiplication

a = 5/6