A square field has an area of 479 ft2. What is the approximate length of a side of the field? Give your answer to the nearest foot. Explain your response.

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To find the approximate length of a side of the square field, we need to take the square root of the area.

√479 ≈ 21.88.

Since the question asks for the answer to the nearest foot, the approximate length of a side of the square field is 22 feet.