Square Roots and Cube Roots Word Problems

The area of a square is 36 cm².  What is the length of one side?

• 6 cm
• 24 cm
• 9 cm
• 9 cm

The area of a square is 100 cm².  What is the perimeter?

• 25 cm
• 10 cm
• 40 cm
• 50 cm

If I know the area of a square, how do I find the side length?

• I square the area.
• I divide the area by 2.
• I take the square root of the area.
• I divide the area by 4.

A perfect square is a number whose square root is ___________.

• Even

• irrational

• Rational

• Odd

To find the square root of a number, you must divide it by 2.

• True
• False

x² = 121
What does x equal?

• 11²
• 11 and -11
• 20 and 11
• 12 and 1

What is the square root of 289?

• 13
• 140
• 17
• 18

What is the square root of 324?

• 16
• 17
• 18
• 19

The number 500...

• is a perfect square.
• is not a perfect square.

17² =

• 34

• 289

• 225

• 324