High School Math : High School Math

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Example Questions

Example Question #691 : High School Math

What is the area of a square with a side of ?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The area of a square is the side squared or .

Plug in our given value.

 

Example Question #692 : High School Math

What is the area of a square with a side of ?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The area of a square is equal to the side squared, or .

Plug in our given value.

Example Question #693 : High School Math

What is the area of a square with a side length of ?

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Correct answer:

Explanation:

To find the area we square the side length

In this case we square  to get .

The answer for the area is .

Example Question #694 : High School Math

What is the area of a square with a side length of ?

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Correct answer:

Explanation:

To find the area of square, multiply the side lengths together:

Example Question #695 : High School Math

A square has a side length of  cm. What is the area of the square? 

Possible Answers:

 square cm 

 square cm 

 square cm 

 square cm 

 square cm 

Correct answer:

 square cm 

Explanation:

Recall by definition that all sides of a square are congruent. Thus, since a square is a rectangle, we have that the area of a square is: 

 square cm. 

Example Question #696 : High School Math

A square has an area of 16. If the sides of the square are tripled, what would be its new area? 

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Correct answer:

Explanation:

If a square has an area of 16, that means each side equals 4. If each side were to be tripled, each side would equal 12. To find the new area of the square multiply two sides of the square:

Example Question #1 : Acute / Obtuse Isosceles Triangles

An isosceles triangle has a base of 12\ cm and an area of 42\ cm^{2}. What must be the height of this triangle?

Possible Answers:

9\ cm

10\ cm

6\ cm

8\ cm

7\ cm

Correct answer:

7\ cm

Explanation:

A=\frac{1}{2}bh

6x=42

x=7

Example Question #697 : High School Math

Find the area of a rectangle with a length of 18 meters and a width of 4 meters. 

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Correct answer:

Explanation:

The area formula for a rectangle is . Plug in the values and you get 72. Since area is squared, make sure your units are squared as well.

Example Question #2 : How To Find The Area Of A Rectangle In Pre Algebra

What is the area of a rectangle with a base of  and a height of ?

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Correct answer:

Explanation:

To find the area of a rectangle we multiply the base by the height. 

Plug the number  for base and  for height into the equation to get .

We then multiply to find the answer for the area is .

Example Question #2 : How To Find The Area Of A Rectangle In Pre Algebra

What is the area of a rectangle with a base of  and a height of ?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

To find the area of a rectangle we multiply the base by the height. 

Plug the number  for base and  for height into the equation to get .

We then multiply to find the answer for the area is .

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