Basic Geometry : Squares

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Example Question #181 : Squares

Know that in a Major League Baseball infield the distance between home plate and first base is 90 feet and the infield is a perfect square.

If for some reason the baseball players decided to play with the basepaths at half of their usual length, what would the area of the infield be?

Possible Answers:

\(\displaystyle 180\ ft\)

\(\displaystyle 2025\ ft^2\)

\(\displaystyle 180\ ft^2\)

\(\displaystyle 360\ ft^2\)

\(\displaystyle 4050\ ft^2\)

Correct answer:

\(\displaystyle 2025\ ft^2\)

Explanation:

If the base paths were half of their original length they would be 45 feet long.

To find the area of this new square, one must multiply 45 times 45.

This equals 2025 square feet.

Example Question #153 : How To Find The Area Of A Square

Know that in a Major League Baseball infield the distance between home plate and first base is 90 feet and the infield is a perfect square.

If a field designer accidentally put two infields right next to each other, what would the area of the giant infield be?

Possible Answers:

\(\displaystyle 4050 \ ft^2\)

\(\displaystyle 540 \ ft^2\)

\(\displaystyle 16,200 \ ft^2\)

\(\displaystyle 900 \ ft^2\)

\(\displaystyle 8100 \ ft^2\)

Correct answer:

\(\displaystyle 16,200 \ ft^2\)

Explanation:

The answer can be found multiple ways, either by adding the area of the two square infields together,

\(\displaystyle 8100 + 8100 = 16,200\ ft^2\).

Or, by picturing the two infields as a rectangle and finding the are by measuring the length and the width. If the length of one side of an infield is 90 feet then the double infield rectangle will have a length of 180 feet and a width of 90 feet.

Therefore, 

\(\displaystyle 90\times180=16,200\ ft^2\)

Example Question #153 : How To Find The Area Of A Square

True or false: The area of a square with sidelength 3 is 12.

Possible Answers:

False

True

Correct answer:

False

Explanation:

Given the length of each side of a square, the area of the square is the square of this length. Therefore, since the square has sidelength 3, its area is 

\(\displaystyle 3^{2} = 3 \times 3 = 9\)

Example Question #153 : How To Find The Area Of A Square

A square has diagonals of length 1. True or false: the area of the square is \(\displaystyle \frac{1}{2}\).

Possible Answers:

True

False

Correct answer:

True

Explanation:

Since a square is a rhombus, its area is equal to half the product of the lengths of its diagonals. Each diagonal has length 1, so the area is equal to

\(\displaystyle A = \frac{1}{2} \cdot 1 \cdot 1 = \frac{1}{2}\).

Example Question #182 : Squares

A square has perimeter 1.

True or false: The area of the square is \(\displaystyle \frac{1}{2}\).

Possible Answers:

False

True

Correct answer:

False

Explanation:

All four sides of a square have the same length, so the common sidelength is one fourth of the perimeter. The perimeter of the given square is 1, so the length of each side is \(\displaystyle \frac{1}{4}\).

The area of a square is equal to the square of the length of a side, so the area of this square is

\(\displaystyle A =\left ( \frac{1}{4} \right )^{2} = \frac{1^{2} }{4^{2} } = \frac{1}{16}\).

Example Question #183 : Squares

A square has perimeter 64. True or false: the area of the square is 256.

Possible Answers:

False

True

Correct answer:

True

Explanation:

The length of each of the (congruent) sides of a square is one fourth its perimeter, so multiply 64 by \(\displaystyle \frac{1}{4}\) to get this length:

\(\displaystyle 64 \times \frac{1}{4} = 16\).

The area of a square is equal to the square of the length of a side, so square 16 to get the area:

\(\displaystyle 16 ^{2} =16 \times 16 = 256\)

Example Question #433 : Quadrilaterals

Assume the length of each side of the square is measured in inches.

If the length of one side of a square is twice the square root of 16, what is the area of the square?

Possible Answers:

\(\displaystyle 64 in^{2}\)

\(\displaystyle 32 in^{2}\)

\(\displaystyle 32 in\)

\(\displaystyle 64 in\)

\(\displaystyle 16^{2}in\)

Correct answer:

\(\displaystyle 64 in^{2}\)

Explanation:

First we need to know that the square root of 16 is 4, because if we work backwards we can see that

\(\displaystyle 4 \times 4= 16\Rightarrow \sqrt{16}=4\)

So next we double 4 to get 8. Now we know that one side of our square is 8in.

The formula for area of a square is one side to the power of two (side times side) because all sides of a square are equal in length. So now we just take 8in and multiply it by itself (8in x 8in) we get an answer of \(\displaystyle 64 in^{2}\).

\(\displaystyle \text{Area}=\text{side}^2\)

\(\displaystyle \text{Area}=8^2=8\times 8=64\)

 

Notice that our answer is in inches squared since we multiplied together two lengths in inches.

Example Question #11 : How To Find The Area Of A Square

Square

A square is circumscribed on a circle with a 6 inch radius. What is the area of the square, in square inches?

Possible Answers:

24

48

144

\(\displaystyle 36\pi\)

36

Correct answer:

144

Explanation:

We know that the radius of the circle is also half the length of the side of the square; therefore, we also know that the length of each side of the square is 12 inches.

Square

We need to square this number to find the area of the square.

\(\displaystyle A=s^2\)

\(\displaystyle A=12^2\)

\(\displaystyle A=144\)

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

The length of one side of a square is 6 inches.  What is the perimeter of the square?

Possible Answers:

\(\displaystyle 12\)

\(\displaystyle 16\)

\(\displaystyle 20\)

\(\displaystyle 36\)

\(\displaystyle 24\)

Correct answer:

\(\displaystyle 24\)

Explanation:

To find the perimeter of a square, multiply one of its sides by 4.

 

\(\displaystyle 6\cdot 4=24\)

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

The area of square \(\displaystyle ABCD\) is 196 square centimeters. What is the perimeter of \(\displaystyle ABCD\)?

Possible Answers:

\(\displaystyle 14\ cm\)

\(\displaystyle 56\ cm\)

\(\displaystyle 28\ cm\)

Cannot be determined.

\(\displaystyle 49\ cm\)

Correct answer:

\(\displaystyle 56\ cm\)

Explanation:

We know that \(\displaystyle area=length\cdot width\).

We also know that since \(\displaystyle ABCD\) is a square, all of its sides are of equal length.

To get the measure of any one side of \(\displaystyle ABCD\), take the square root of the area:

\(\displaystyle \sqrt{196}=14\) centimeters

Therefore each side of \(\displaystyle ABCD\) is 14 centimeters long.

To find the perimeter, multiply by 4:

\(\displaystyle 14\times4=56\) centimeters

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