Question

Plz help brain fam!

Patrick is designing a large square stained glass window for the library. If the area of the window is 36 square feet, how long is each side?


A. 72 B. 18 C. 9 D. 6

Thanks!

Answer 1

Hello!


So to get the side of each window, we need to find the square root of 36 because the formula for a square to get the are is a².

√36 = 6

Check:

6 × 6 = 36

This proves we are CORRECT!

Answer: D. 6.

Hope I helped.

Answer 2

As you know the formula of calculating are for a square having side a is: S=axa
So we have 6x6=36, that means the window has to be 6 feet for each side
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