Joe measures the side of a square correct to 1 decimal place. he calculates the upper bound for the area of the square as 37.8225cm². work out joe's measurement for the side of the square

The side of the square is 6.2 cm

A square is a quadrilateral with four equal sides.

Characteristics of a square includes:

• The diagonals bisect each other at 90°.

• Opposite sides parallel and of equal length

• The four angles of a square are equal.

Area of a square = length of a side²

37.8225cm² = length of a side²

To determine the length of a side, find the square root of 37.8225cm²

√ 37.8225cm² = 6.15cm

To round off to one decimal place, look at the second number after the decimal (the hundredth). If the number is greater or equal to 5, add 1 to the tenth figure. If this is not the case, add zero

The hundredth number is 5, so one would be added to one. the number then becomes 6.2cm

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