How do I find the perimeter of a square from the area of the square?
2 Answers
Perimeter
Explanation:
It's quite easy to find the perimeter of a square if you know it's area. It goes as follows :-
Suppose the side of the square you have is
We know that the formula for the area of a square is
Area
So we will obtain the side of the square.
Now we know that the formula for the perimeter of a square is
Explanation:
If the side of the square was
Therefore, if you knew what the area was, you can square root the value to get the length of one side, as
Here, we ignore the negative value of the square root as lengths cannot be negative.
Since the perimeter of the square is equal to
Hope that makes sense!