a piece of cloth must be cut to exactly cover a square table. the area of the table is 27ft squared. find the length of the side of the table to the nearest tenth of a foot.
a piece of cloth must be cut to exactly cover a square table. the area of the table is 27ft squared. find the length of the side of the table to the nearest tenth of a foot.
Wouldn't this just be the square root of 27? Must we find it manually?
I think I've forgot how to do that, so I'm going to use my calculator.
So... sqrt(27) = 5.196i52 which rounded to a tenth is 5.2 ft.
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