Question

What is the side length of a square whose area is 1/64 square miles?

Answer 1

1/8=.125 miles




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Answer 2

squares have 4 equal sides. area of square is the square of a side.

Area = side x side

if side = x

the area of the square is 1/64 square miles

1/64 = x * x

`(1)/(64) = x^(2)`

when multiplying fractions, numerators are mulitiplied by numerators and denominators by denominators

`x = \sqrt{(1)/(64)}`

the square root of the denominator 64 is 8.

therefore

side length = 1/8 miles