Look at the square below:
What is the area of the square equivalent to?
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Look at the square below:
What is the area of the square equivalent to?
The area of a square is equal to the square of its side length.
In other words:
Since in the diagram we are given one side of the square, and in a square all sides are equal to each other, we will solve for the area of the square as follows:
Look at the square below:
What is the area of the square?
Area measures the space inside the square. When you have a 5×5 square, you're filling it with 25 unit squares (5 rows of 5). Doubling gives you perimeter, which is the distance around the square.
Area is the space inside (measured in square units like cm²). Perimeter is the distance around the outside (measured in linear units like cm). For this square: Area = 25, Perimeter = 20.
Yes! The formula works for any square, no matter the size. Just substitute your side length for 's' and square it.
Imagine filling the square with small unit squares. You'd have 5 rows with 5 squares in each row. That's total unit squares!
The same formula works! Just square whatever number you have. For example, if the side is 2.5, then .
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