Surface area of a square and rectangle basketball game

Surface area of a square and rectangle basketball game

Area of a square and rectangle using a formula

Any shape, object, or basically anything has its own size and form. In mathematics, when it comes to rectangles and circles, they have what we call an area. An area is an overall space or surface that objects and shapes occupy. And to be able to find the area of a square and rectangle, we must know how their formula works.
A square, as we all know, has four equal sides. Its sides are all the same and equal in all aspects and that is the characteristic of a square. And because of its structure, the area of a square is quite easy to determine. To be honest, even a rectangle’s area is easy to find if we know how to do the formula properly.
To explain it further, let’s have an example. Let’s say that a square has 10 cm on one side, the formula to find the area of a square is area = length x width. Since a square has all equal sides, we can say that length times width is equivalent to side times side. To find the area of our given example, we have to multiply 10 cm to the other side, which is also measured as 10 cm. Therefore, the answer for the area of the square with 10 cm sides is 100 cm2.
For the rectangle, we do have the same formula to use which is area = length x width. If we have a rectangle with 5cm on one side and 3cm on the other side, multiply them together and we will have an area of 15cm2.