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

6.25 has three sig figs
area of square = length time length
so = 6.25 * 6.25
then round to three sig figs

Answer 2

A square has all four sides equal in length to each other.

Area = side x side

Area = 6.25 * 6.25 = 39.0625
convert to 2 sig dig
Area = 39.06 square feet.

Answer 3

what does it mean by round to the significant digits

Answer 4

round to the nearest tenth

Answer 5

40

Answer 6

kinda.
6.25 has three sig figs
^ ^^ three digits total
therefore round to a number with 3 digits total
so 6.25 times 6.25 = 39.0625 -> 39.1

Answer 7

i get it now thanks!

Answer 8

you're welcome :)