I am confused on this: "Find the area of a square with a perimeter of 20 inches"

25 square inches

Step-by-step explanation:

A square has 4 congruent sides.

By knowing the perimeter of a square, you can find the length of a side.

perimeter = 4 * side

20 in. = 4s

s = 20 in./4

s = 5 in.

A side of this square measures 5 in.

Now we use the area formula to find the area of the square.

area = (side)^2

area = (5 in.)^2

area = 25 in.^2

The area will be 25 inches.

Step-by-step explanation:

Hi! So, this might be a pretty easy question for some people, but I can see how it might be confusing.

If you want to find the area of a square, which has four equal sides, it's pretty easy. You just need to know the length of one side instead of two different lengths, because both are equal!

The question gives you the perimeter, which is 20 inches. To get the perimeter of something, like this square, you add up all the sides. All you have to do to find the length of one side is divide the total sum of the sides, 20 (perimeter!)  by the number of sides you have, four!

Note: This won't work with things like rectangles. You can only do things like this with squares, because you know ahead of time that all of the sides will be equal.

So! 20 divided by the number of sides, 4, is five!

Know we know all we need to be able to find the area of the square. To find the area, all you have to do is multiply the length of the square (5) by the width of the square (also 5!) That's 25, which is the area of your mystery square.

Hope you understand and this helps!