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How 2 find the area of a square?
To find the area of a rectangle, multiply its height by its width. For a square you only need to find the length of one of the sides (as each side is the same length) and then multiply this by itself to find the area. This is the same as saying length2 or length squared.
How do you find the length and width of a square with the area?
This fact makes it especially easy to calculate the length of one of the sides, given the area of the square. If the area enclosed by the square is A, and the length of each side is L, then L = √A.
What is the perimeter and area of square?
Answer: The area of a square is equal to the square of the length of its side and the perimeter of the square is 4 times the length of its side. Let the length of the side of a square be ‘a’ units.
What is the formula to find the area of a square?
Square Formulas: A square is a convex quadrilateral with all sides equal length and positioned at right angles to each other. Or, a square is a regular polygon with four sides, a tetragon. Area of a square: A = a 2. Perimeter of a Square. P = 4a. Polygon diagonals of a square. q = √(2a 2) = a√2. Side of a Square . a = √A
What is the length of one side of this square?
Since we know the shape here is square, we know that all sides are of equal length. From this we can work backwards by taking the square root of the area to find the length of one side. The length of one (and each) side of this square is 6 inches.
Why is the area of a square equal to its side?
The area is the space covered by the object. It is the region occupied by any shape. While measuring the area of a square, we consider only the length of its side. All the sides of a square are equal and hence, its area is equal to the square of side.
How to find the area of a shape based on its sides?
All the sides of a square are equal and hence, its area is equal to the square of side. Similarly, we can find the area of the other shapes such as rectangle, parallelogram, triangle or any polygon, based on its sides.