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Johanna carves a square block of wood that has on one side an area of 872 square inches. To the nearest integer, what is the length of the side?
A. 30
B. 28
C. 26
D. 24
Is the answer A?
Thank you
10 years ago

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Damon
well, 30 would be 900
and 28 would be 784

so do my proportion thing again

28 x 30
784 872 900

(872 -784)/ (x-28) = (900-784)/(30-28)

x-28 = 2*88/116
x = 28 + about 1.5
or around 29.5
so
30

try calculator
sqrt (872) = 29.529
10 years ago
Anonymous
yes the answer is A
9 years ago

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