## anonymous one year ago The area of a square garden is 202 square feet. Estimate the side length of the garden? Is it 101 I'm not sure please explain???

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1. Nnesha

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2. anonymous

ohhhhh ok thanks

3. anonymous

now i can reply 2 ppl

4. Nnesha

so it's square and all sides of square are equal |dw:1440250183784:dw| formula is $\huge\rm A=s^2$ you have to solve for s a is area which is 202

5. anonymous

im trying 2 figure out what would all add up to 202

6. anonymous

can u give me a idea of how u find the sides

7. Nnesha

nice so use that formula where a is area s= sides substitute a for 202 solve for s

8. Nnesha

formula: area of square A=s^2

9. Nnesha

$\huge\rm 202=s^2$ do you know how to sovle for s?

10. Nnesha

brb

11. anonymous

I can type now I'm on my phone

12. anonymous

And I don't know how to solve for s

13. anonymous

Brb

14. Nnesha

just take square root both sides to cancel out the square :)

15. Nnesha

you can convert root to exponent $\huge\rm \sqrt[n]{x^m}=x^\frac{ m}{ n }$ so you can convert square root to 1/2 exponent $\huge\rm \sqrt{s^2}= s^{\frac{ 1 }{ 2 } \times 2}$ cancel out the 2's $\huge\rm \sqrt{s^2}= s^{\frac{ 1 }{\cancel{ 2} } \times \cancel{2}}$ and then it's equal to s that's why we should take square root to cancel out square

16. anonymous

Just take the square root of 202?

17. Nnesha

yes right.

18. Nnesha

what did you get ?