A square room has a floor area of 36 square feet. The height of the room is 7 feet. What is the area of all four walls?

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wall length ... √(36 ft^2) = 6 ft

wall area = 6 ft * 7 ft = 42 ft^2

for four walls ... 42 ft^2 * 4 = ?

not 252
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Now the actual question.
The floor of the room is a square and has an area of 36 ft^2,
so its length is 6 ft,
One wall will be 6*7 square ft, and there are 4 of those walls
total area = 4*(6*7) ft^2 = 168 square ft
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2. Make sure you know what you are doing, your answer is not correct
3. Just blurting out an answer is not how this is done, no learning by the
students take place that way,

--- mathhelper

Now the actual question.
The floor of the room is a square and has an area of 36 ft^2,
so its length is 6 ft,
One wall will be 6*7 square ft, and there are 4 of those walls
total area = 4*(6*7) ft^2 = 168 square ft
nah
168