Question

The area of a square is 144 square centimeters.
What is the length of one side of the square?

Answer 1

A = a^2......A = area and a is length of one side

144 = a^2 ....take the sqrt of both sides, eliminating the ^2 on the right
sqrt 144 = a
12 = a.....so one side is 12 cm

Answer 2

What is the length of one side of the square?


ANSWER ---Take the square root of 144.
so it is -------- 12