Question

A square has sides of 11cm calculate its area?

Answer 1

The area of the square is `121` square centimeters.

Explanation:

The area of rectangles is computed by multiplying the base times the height.

Since the rectangle in this problem is a square, the base and the height are the same because in a square, all four sides are the same.

So if one side is 11 cm, all the sides are also 11 cm.

So to calculate the area of the square, multiply one side times another one.

`11 xx 11 = 121`

The side of a square can be called `s`, so the area of any square can be found by calculating `s^2`

Area = `s^2`

In this case, `s = 11`

`s^2 = 11^2 = 121` square centimeters `larr` answer

Here's an image of the particular square in this problem:

http://slideplayer.com/slide/8605856/