Question

The Fernandez family has a square driveway with an area of 182. 25 m squared. Find the perimeter of the driveway. Round your answer to the nearest foot

Answer 1

The perimeter of the driveway is 54m.

Explanation:

-Since the area of a square is the multiplication of two of the sides of the square (because every side is congruent to each other), what we have to do with the area is to get the square root of it, not divide it by 2, which is and error that a lot of people make (including me).

-The process would be like this

`\sqrt[]{182.25}`=13.5

-So 13.5 is the lenght of each side, now, all we have to do is to multiply it times 4 to get the perimeter:

13.5*4=54

-The perimeter of the driveway is 54m.