Question

the area of a square game board is 144 square inches what is the length of one of the sides of the board

Answer 1

Each side is 36 inches. since it is a square all sides are the same length. 144 divided by 4 (number of sides) =36. hope that helps

Answer 2

12 inches.

The other person who answered is wrong. He or she took it as perimeter.

Why 12 inches?

Because of
1) Square have equal sides
2) This is AREA not perimeter.

So to get 144 square inches, apply the formula for area of square...

Area of square = Length times Length

So 12 times 12, you will get 144.

Or simply use surd on calculator lol.