High School Math : How to find the area of a square in pre-algebra

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Example Questions

Example Question #11 : How To Find The Area Of A Square In Pre Algebra

What is the area of a square with a side of ?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The area of a square is the side squared or .

Plug in our given value.

 

Example Question #12 : How To Find The Area Of A Square In Pre Algebra

What is the area of a square with a side of ?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The area of a square is equal to the side squared, or .

Plug in our given value.

Example Question #13 : How To Find The Area Of A Square In Pre Algebra

What is the area of a square with a side length of ?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

To find the area we square the side length

In this case we square  to get .

The answer for the area is .

Example Question #14 : How To Find The Area Of A Square In Pre Algebra

What is the area of a square with a side length of ?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

To find the area of square, multiply the side lengths together:

Example Question #15 : How To Find The Area Of A Square In Pre Algebra

A square has a side length of  cm. What is the area of the square? 

Possible Answers:

 square cm 

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Correct answer:

 square cm 

Explanation:

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. 

Example Question #16 : How To Find The Area Of A Square In Pre Algebra

A square has an area of 16. If the sides of the square are tripled, what would be its new area? 

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

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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