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Please help me with this question. Please!

Michelle wishes to build a square pool in her backyard. She has saved enough to build a pool with the area of 150 square feet. What is the length of each side? (Recall that the area of a square is i^2, where i is the length of a single side).

A) 11 feet.
B) More than 11 feet but less than 12 feet
C) 12 feet
D) More than 12 feet but less than 13 feet

Please show your work.

User Miad Abrin
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150=i^2
150^.5=12.2474
11^2=121
12^2=144
13^2=169
between 12 and 13, D
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