Question

The area of a square is196 square feet. What is the length of one side of this square?

A.
14 ft

B.
98 ft

C.
49 ft

D.
13 ft

Answer 1

a square means that it's a rectangle with all four sides equal in length. So, since area for square is side squared (s2):
s2 = 196
use a calcuator to get the square root of 196 which is 14.
so length is 14 feet.