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A square field has an area of 479 ft2. What is the approximate length of a side of the field? Give
your answer to the nearest foot. Explain your response.

User Omolara
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Answer is 22 ft

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We know a square will have equal sides.
We know the area is equal to Side ^ 2.
so if I know the area, I need to do the reverse, instead of square, we do the square root.

The square root of 479 = 21.886, rounded to 22 ft.
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