Basic Geometry : Basic Geometry

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Example Questions

Example Question #921 : Basic Geometry

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The area of the square  is  square units. What is the perimeter of ?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The formula for the area of a square with given side length  is . Since the area  of the square  is  square units, its side length  can be computed as follows:

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The formula for the perimeter of a square with given side length  is . The side length  of square  has already been calculated, so we can substitute in this value for  in this formula to deduce its perimeter.

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Hence, the perimeter of the square  is  units.

 

Example Question #74 : How To Find The Perimeter Of A Square

If the area of a square is 144, what is the perimeter?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

First we need to find the measure of one side. Since formula for area of a square is 

 

we can plug in area and find side 

 

we have to take the square root of each side to solve for S 

 

so 

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Now that we have our side we can solve for perimeter. The formula for perimeter of a square is 

 or  

Since we know S=12 we multiply 12 x 4 and we get 48.

Example Question #921 : Basic Geometry

A square has an area of , what is the perimeter?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The area of a square is:

, where s is the side length of the square.

So using the numbers:

Therefore, every side of the square is 25.

Now to find the perimeter, a square has 4 equal sides:

The perimeter of the square is 100

Example Question #1 : How To Find The Length Of The Side Of A Square

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A square has an area of , what is the length of its side?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The sides can be found by taking the square root of the area.

, where = side.

So the length of a side is 6.3 cm.

Example Question #1 : How To Find The Length Of The Side Of A Square

The perimeter of a square is 16. Find the length of each side of this square.

Possible Answers:

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4

Correct answer:

4

Explanation:

First, know that all the side lengths of a square are equal. Second, know that the sum of all 4 side lengths gives us the perimeter.  Thus, the square perimeter of 16 is written as

where S is the side length of a square. Solve for this S

So the length of each side of this square is 4.

Example Question #1 : How To Find The Length Of The Side Of A Square

A playground is enclosed by a square fence. The area of the playground is . The perimeter of the fence is . What is the length of one side of the fence?

 

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

We will have two formulas to help us solve this problem, the area and perimeter of a square.

The area of a square is:

 ,

where length of the square and width of the square.

The perimeter of a square is:

Plugging in our values, we have:

 Since all sides of a square have the same value, we can replace all and with (side). Our equations become:

 

 

Therefore, .

Example Question #1 : How To Find The Length Of The Side Of A Square

The area of the square shown below is 36 square inches. What is the length of one of the sides?

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Possible Answers:

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Correct answer:

Explanation:

The area of any quadrilateral can be determined by multiplying the length of its base by its height.

Since we know the shape here is square, we know that all sides are of equal length. From this we can work backwards by taking the square root of the area to find the length of one side.

The length of one (and each) side of this square is 6 inches.

Example Question #2 : How To Find The Length Of The Side Of A Square

A square has one side of length , what is the length of the opposite side?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

One of the necessary conditions of a square is that all sides be of equal length. Therefore, because we are given the length of one side we know the length of all sides and that includes the length of the opposite side. Since the length of one of the sides is 4 we can conclude that all of the sides are 4, meaning the opposite side has a length of 4.

Example Question #1 : How To Find The Length Of The Side Of A Square

The perimeter of a square is half its area. What is the length of one side of the square?

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Correct answer:

Explanation:

We begin by recalling the formulas for the perimeter and area of a square respectively.

Using these formulas and the fact that the perimeter is half the area, we can create an equation.

We can multiply both sides by 2 to eliminate the fraction.

To get one side of the equation equal to zero, we will move everything to the right side.

Next we can factor.

Setting each factor equal to zero provides two potential solutions.

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However, since a square cannot have a side of length 0, 8 is our only answer.

Example Question #1 : How To Find The Length Of The Side Of A Square

If the area of the square is 100 square units, what is, in units, the length of one side of the square?

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Correct answer:

Explanation:

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