Question

The floor area of a square closet is 16 ft2. What is the length of one side of the closet? ft

Answer 1

Answer:

The answer is 4ft

Step-by-step explanation:

The formula for calculating the area of a square is given as;

Area of a square = Length × Length

A = L²

Note that all the length of the sides of the square are equal.

Given the area of the square closet to be 16ft², to find the length of the closet, we will substitute the area given into the formula for calculating the area of square as given above to have;

16ft² = L²

L = √16ft²

L = ±4ft

Since the length of the square cannot be negative, therefore the length of one side of the square closet is 4ft.

Answer 2

The length of one side is 4 ft. because a square has 4 sides.

Area/amount of sides =

16/4=4

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