A square sandbox has an area of 231 square feet. Which measurement is the approximate length of one of the sides of the sandbox in feet?

Answer 1

Hi Sjhdhs

A square sandbox has an area of 231 square feet. Which measurement is the approximate length of one of the sides of the sandbox in feet?

Your questions gives you the following information

1) You have a square sandbox.. Since it's square, all 4 sides are the same length

2) The area is 231 Square Feet.

Find:

The length of the side.

The area of a square is equal to Side Times Side.

Area = s²

231 ft² = s²

s= Squrt (231)

s = 15.19868...

If you round to the nearest foot.

s = 15 feet

So your square would be 15 feet per side.

Hope this helps.

Let me know if you have more questions!