SSAT Elementary Level Math : How to find the area of a square
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Example Question #21 : Plane Geometry
Find the area of the square shown below:
A square has sides that are all equal. Area is length times width, and in the case of a square it is the side measurement times itself. 
Example Question #22 : Geometry
Use the following to answer the question.
Find the area of the square.
To find the area of a square, we use the following formula:
where l is the width and w is the width of the square.
If we look at the square
we can see the width is 7in. Because it is a square, we know that all sides are equal. Therefore, the length is also 7in. Knowing this, we can substitute into the formula. We get
Example Question #22 : Squares
Use the following square to answer the question:
Find the area.
To find the area of a square, we will use the following formula:
where l is the length and w is the width of the square.
Now, let's look at the square.
We can see the width of the square is 2in. Because it is a square, all sides are equal. Therefore, the length is also 2in.
Knowing this, we can substitute into the formula. We get
Example Question #23 : Squares
Use the following square to solve the problem:
Find the area.
To find the area of a square, we will use the following formula:
where l is the length and w is the width of the square.
Now, given the square
we can see the length is 5cm. Because it is a square, all sides are equal. Therefore, the width is also 5cm. So, we can substitute
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