What is the side length of a square whose area is 1/64 square miles?

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asked Dec 23, 2019 159k views

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Alexey Zatsepin · Answer 1 · 2019-12-29T04:36:02+0000

squares have 4 equal sides. area of square is the square of a side.

Area = side x side

if side = x

the area of the square is 1/64 square miles

1/64 = x * x

(1)/(64) = x^(2)

when multiplying fractions, numerators are mulitiplied by numerators and denominators by denominators

$x = \sqrt{(1)/(64)}$

the square root of the denominator 64 is 8.

therefore

side length = 1/8 miles