The game of checkers is played on a square board. If the area is 256 square feet, what is the perimeter of the board?
64
I mean 16
THE ANSWER IS 64!! I'M SO SORRY. 😂
each side is √256 or 16
so the perimeter is 64
you were right the first time
To find the perimeter of the board, we need to know the dimensions of the square board. Since checkers is typically played on an 8x8 grid, with 64 squares in total, we can assume that the board is also an 8x8 square.
To calculate the perimeter of a square, we need to multiply the length of one side by 4.
Since the area is given as 256 square feet, we can determine the length of one side by taking the square root of the area:
Side length = √(Area) = √(256) = 16 feet
Now that we know the side length of the square board is 16 feet, we can calculate the perimeter:
Perimeter = 4 * Side length = 4 * 16 = 64 feet
Therefore, the perimeter of the checkers board is 64 feet.