How to find the area of a square in pre-algebra - Math
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Find the area of a square with a side of 10 inches.
Find the area of a square with a side of 10 inches.
The formula for the area of a square is 
. Therefore, square 10 and you get 100. Make sure your units are squared.
The formula for the area of a square is
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What is the area of a square with a side length of 
?
What is the area of a square with a side length of
To find the area we square the side length 
In this case we square 
to get 
.
The answer for the area in this example is 
.
To find the area we square the side length
In this case we square
The answer for the area in this example is
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What is the area of a square if the length of one side is 
?
What is the area of a square if the length of one side is
The area of a quadrilateral is length times width or 
. With a square, all four sides are equal, so we can say:
.
The problem tells us that each side is 
, so we can plug in and solve:
The area of a quadrilateral is length times width or
The problem tells us that each side is
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What is the area of a square if each side is 
?
What is the area of a square if each side is
The formula for the area of a square is side times side: 
Plug in our given information and solve:
The formula for the area of a square is side times side:
Plug in our given information and solve:
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What is the area of a square with a side length of 
?
What is the area of a square with a side length of
To find the area we square the side length: 
In this case we square 
to get 
.
The answer for the area is 
.
To find the area we square the side length:
In this case we square
The answer for the area is
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A square has an area of 16. If the sides of the square are tripled, what would be its new area?
A square has an area of 16. If the sides of the square are tripled, what would be its new area?
If a square has an area of 16, that means each side equals 4. If each side were to be tripled, each side would equal 12. To find the new area of the square multiply two sides of the square: 
If a square has an area of 16, that means each side equals 4. If each side were to be tripled, each side would equal 12. To find the new area of the square multiply two sides of the square:
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If a square has a perimeter of 
, what is the area?
If a square has a perimeter of
The perimeter of a shape is the sum of the sides of that shape. For a square, all four sides are equal, meaning that 
.
For this problem 
.
From there we can solve.
The area of a square is equal to side squared.
The perimeter of a shape is the sum of the sides of that shape. For a square, all four sides are equal, meaning that
For this problem
From there we can solve.
The area of a square is equal to side squared.
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What is the area of a square with a side length of 
?
What is the area of a square with a side length of
The formula for the area of a square is 
.
Plug in our given information.
The formula for the area of a square is
Plug in our given information.
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What is the area of a square with a side of 
?
What is the area of a square with a side of
The formula for the area of a square is 
.
Plug in our given information and solve.
The formula for the area of a square is
Plug in our given information and solve.
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If the area of a square is 
, what is each side's length?
If the area of a square is
Area of a square is 
.
Plug in our given values:
Since the square root of 
is 
, 
.
Therefore:
Area of a square is
Plug in our given values:
Since the square root of
Therefore:
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What is the area of a square with a side length of 
?
What is the area of a square with a side length of
To find the area we square the side length
In this case we square 
to get 
.
The answer for the area is 
.
To find the area we square the side length
In this case we square
The answer for the area is
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A square has a side the length of 
. What is the area of this square?
A square has a side the length of
The formula for the area of a square is 
. Since the problem tells us that the length of each side is 
, we can plug that into our given equation.
The formula for the area of a square is
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What is the area of a square with a side of 
?
What is the area of a square with a side of
The area of a square is the side squared or 
.
Plug in our given value.
The area of a square is the side squared or
Plug in our given value.
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What is the area of a square with a side of 
?
What is the area of a square with a side of
The area of a square is equal to the side squared, or 
.
Plug in our given value.
The area of a square is equal to the side squared, or
Plug in our given value.
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What is the area of a square with a side length of 
?
What is the area of a square with a side length of
To find the area of square, multiply the side lengths together:
To find the area of square, multiply the side lengths together:
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A square has a side length of 
cm. What is the area of the square?
A square has a side length of
Recall by definition that all sides of a square are congruent. Thus, since a square is a rectangle, we have that the area of a square is:
square cm.
Recall by definition that all sides of a square are congruent. Thus, since a square is a rectangle, we have that the area of a square is:
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What is the area of a square with a side length of ?
What is the area of a square with a side length of
To find the area of square, multiply the side lengths together:
To find the area of square, multiply the side lengths together:
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Find the area of a square with a side of 10 inches.
Find the area of a square with a side of 10 inches.
The formula for the area of a square is . Therefore, square 10 and you get 100. Make sure your units are squared.
The formula for the area of a square is
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What is the area of a square with a side length of ?
What is the area of a square with a side length of
To find the area we square the side length
In this case we square to get .
The answer for the area in this example is .
To find the area we square the side length
In this case we square
The answer for the area in this example is
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What is the area of a square if the length of one side is ?
What is the area of a square if the length of one side is
The area of a quadrilateral is length times width or . With a square, all four sides are equal, so we can say:
.
The problem tells us that each side is , so we can plug in and solve:
The area of a quadrilateral is length times width or
The problem tells us that each side is
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