a square acre of land is 4840

Question

a square acre of land is 4840 square yards between which two integers is the length one side?

Answer 1

4840 is not a perfect square.  The square root of 4840 is 22√10, which is not an integer.

So even though the "square area" is 4840, the overall shape of the land is not a square.

 

It is probably a rectangle.

 

There are several combinations of integer factors of 4840 that work.

Recall that the are of a rectangle is length times width.

So we need 2 whole numbers whose product is 4840.

 

Here are some possible answers that meet this criteria:

 

2410 x 2

1210 x 4

968 x 5

605 x 8

484 x 10

440 x 11

242 x 20

220 x 22

121 x 40

110 x 44

88 x 55