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A rancher needs to build a square pen for cattle with an areaabout 625 square yards. What are the dimensions?

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The area of any square pen can be calculated as:


\text{Area}=a^2

Where a is the length of the squa

So, if we replace the Area by 625 and we solve for a, we get:


\begin{gathered} 625=a^2 \\ √(625)=√(a^2) \\ 25=a \end{gathered}

Therefore the dimensions of the square yard are 25

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