Question

The area of a square is

144 square centimeters.
What is the length of one side of the square?

Answer 1

It's 12
You simply just square root it

Answer 2

square has 4 equal sides

so A = 144 = 12^2

A = L x W

= W. W

= W^2

12^2 = W^2

so W = 12

answer: one side of the square = 12