A square garden has an area of 147 square feet.(2 points)
What is the closest approximate length of one of the sides?
12 feet
What is the approximate perimeter of the garden to find out how much fencing you would need to go around it?
52 feet of fencing
If the area of the square garden is 147 square feet, then each side of the square would be √147 feet (since the area of a square is equal to the length of one side squared). Taking the square root of 147, we find that each side is approximately 12.124 feet. Rounding to the nearest whole number, the approximate length of one of the sides is 12 feet.
The perimeter of a square is found by adding up the lengths of all four sides. Since each side of the square garden is approximately 12 feet, the perimeter would be 4 * 12 = 48 feet. Rounding to the nearest whole number, the approximate perimeter would be 48 feet of fencing.