James wants to buy a new rug for his living room. In a department store he finds a square rug that has an area of 9 m2 how long is each side of the rug?
The square root of 9 = _______ feet
To find the length of each side of the square rug, we can use the formula for the area of a square, which is side multiplied by side.
Given that the area of the rug is 9 m2, we can set up the equation as follows:
side × side = 9
To solve for the length of each side, we need to take the square root of both sides of the equation.
√(side × side) = √9
This simplifies to:
side = √9
The square root of 9 is 3, so the length of each side of the rug is 3 meters.