A square tile has an area of 121 square inches. What is the length of one side of the square tile in inches? Is this tile smaller or larger than a one foot by one foot tile?
To find the length of one side of the square tile, we need to find the square root of the area of the tile. The area of the tile is given as 121 square inches. Taking the square root of 121, we find that one side of the square tile is 11 inches.
A one foot by one foot tile would have a length and width of 12 inches each. Since 11 inches is smaller than 12 inches, the square tile is smaller than a one foot by one foot tile.