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Question from Kerry: If you have a perfect square that is one quarter of an acre what are the length of the sides and how do you arrive at the solution?thank you, Kerry. |
Hi Kerry,
There are 43560 square feet in an acre so one quarter of an acre is $\large \frac{43560}{4} \normalsize = 10890$ square feet. If each side of the square is $F$ feet long then the area is $F^2$ square feet. Thus $F^2 = 10890$ and $F = \sqrt{10890} = 104.35$ feet.
Penny
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