Question

A square has a side of 6.25 feet. What is the area in square feet? Round to the correct significant digits.

Answer 1

so whats the equation for area of a square? @pony123 ?

Answer 2

wxh?

Answer 3

...? How do u work out the area of a shape?

Answer 4

width x height

Answer 5

yep, perfect
but a square has equal width and height (in this case both are 6.25)
so the area of this square is?

Answer 6

so the answer would be 39.0625 or just 39?

Answer 7

or 39.1

Answer 8

neither, as you're using significant figures, you still use rounding
so 3 sig figs in workings = 3 sig figs in answer
so 39.1 (the 0.06 is rounded up)

Answer 9

ok thank you!

Answer 10

all good dude, yw