please help Im so lost length of a sides is 3 sqroot 3cm find the area of a square

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anonymous · Answer

It's not as hard as you might think...

If you know one side of a square, how do you find area?

Easy number example:  all sides are 2 cm...  So how do you find area for a square with sides 2 cm?

anonymous · Answer

mulitiply the base times its self

anonymous · Answer

It's just 2 x 2 = 4 square cm, right?  You just multiply Length X Width, but both sides are the same length... it's base x itself, as you said.

anonymous · Answer

So here, your side length looks "ugly" but it's just a number... 3 sqrt(3)

so 3 sqrt(3)  X 3 sqrt(3)  is the area

anonymous · Answer

so 27

anonymous · Answer

yep...
$$3\sqrt{3} * 3\sqrt{3} = 3*3*\sqrt{3}*\sqrt{3} = 3*3*(\sqrt{3})^{2} = 3* 3* 3 = 27$$

anonymous · Answer

It's probably more to teach you how to get comfortable multiplying things with square roots in them than it is to talk about area of a square.

anonymous · Answer

thank you

anonymous · Answer

But you got it :)  Good job.