What is the are of the square?

Question

A school is installing a flagpole in the central plaza. The plaza is a square with side length 100100 yards as shown in the figure below. The flagpole will take up a square plot in the middle of the plaza and its base will have an area of x^2−8x+16yd².

Answer 1

I am assuming the question is asking for the length of base of the flagpole?

1. The area of the of the flagpole is x^2-6x+16
2. Factor the trinomial to (x-4)(x-4).
3. The length of the base is (x-4) where 4 < x< 100