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Answer 1

a.
`4^2`

b. 16

Explanation:

The area of a square is equal to the side length squared. Normally, the area of a rectangle is length times width but since all sides are equal in a square it is just the side times the side. This can be simplified to side length squared.

Since the side length is 4 the exponent form of the area is simply 4 squared or
`4^2`.

Then, compute this by multiplying 4*4. This equals 16 cms square.