Question

Hakim has 4 pieces of square-shaped paper.

The length of each piece of paper is 10 cm.
He arranged them to form a bigger square.
What is its area?
Discuss with your classmate how you got your answer
Are your methods the same?

Answer 1

400cm^2

Explanation:

As Hakim has 4 pieces of square shaped papers each of length 10cm then for 1 paper=10cm and for area of 1 paper=10×10cm=100cm^2. and for 4 papers 100cm^2 × 4= 400cm^2.

Thus the total area of the big paper is =400cm^2.