A ballroom has a square dance floor. The area of the floor is 400 square feet. If the length of each side of the square increase by one foot, would its answer be a rational number?

My account
Edit my Profile
Private messages
My favorites

Ask a Question
Questions
Unanswered
Tags
Categories
Ask a Question

asked Sep 19, 2018 69.3k views

5 votes

A ballroom has a square dance floor. The area of the floor is 400 square feet. If the length of each side of the square increase by one foot, would its answer be a rational number?

Mathematics
college

Randallmeadows asked

by Randallmeadows

9.1k points

0 Comments

Please log in or register to add a comment.

Please log in or register to answer this question.

1 Answer

5 votes

The new dimension would be 22x22 because Sqrt (400) = 20.
22^2 is 484 and it is a rational number

Andymel answered Sep 23, 2018

by Andymel

8.6k points

0 Comments

Please log in or register to add a comment.

Ask a Question

Welcome to QAmmunity.org, where you can ask questions and receive answers from other members of our community.

9.5m questions

12.2m answers

0 Comments

Please log in or register to add a comment.

Please log in or register to answer this question.

1 Answer

0 Comments

Please log in or register to add a comment.

Other Questions