Question

A chessboard is made 64 small squares. Suppose a single square on a chessboard has an area of 5 square centimeters. How long is one side of the entire board, rounded to the nearest tenth of a centimeter?

Answer 1

Chessboard is square, so it has n x n = 64 squares
how many squares (n) on a side?

If each of the n squares is L x L = 5 cm^2 in area, what is square length, L?

How long is n L?

Answer 2

320 centimeters as i multiplied

Answer 3

The choices are:
a. 17.9 cm
b.8.9 cm
c. 2.2
d. 143.1 cm

Answer 4

sup doug i found u again answering questions!!

Answer 5

HI!

Answer 6

is it 143.1

Answer 7

Noooo. 8 squares. Each has length sqrt(5 cm^2)=2.24
Thus length of board is 8 x 2.24 =

Answer 8

17.92

Answer 9

answer is A

Answer 10

Quick estimate would be that if each square were a little smaller, 4 cm^2,
t5hen each would be 2 cm on a side and 8 of these would be 16 cm.

Answer 11

\0w0/ thanks

Answer 12

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Answer 13

im just not sure..

Answer 14

a is the closest to it be3cause it is 17.9 and i got 17.92

Answer 15

Be sure. 18 cm is about 7 inches. the other sizes are too big or too small.

Answer 16

maybe extra 2

Answer 17

no 18 cm

Answer 18

@douglaswinslowcooper

Answer 19

where are we going next?

Answer 20

? dont know