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Tea is painting a square wall in her room. The amunt of paint she used covered anarea of 98 m. What is the side length of each wall? Round your answer to theearest hundredth

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The area of a square is given by the following expression:


A=l^2

Where A is the area of the square, while l is the length of the side. The problem informed us of the area of the square, therefore we can use that value for A and solve the expression for l, we have:


\begin{gathered} 98=l^2 \\ l=\sqrt[]{98} \\ l=9.899 \end{gathered}

The length of the side is approximately 9.9 m

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