How many acres in 100 square acres?

Answer 1

One square acre is defined as the area of a square of 1 acre X 1 acre.

The area of a square is the length of its side multiplied by itself.

For 100 square acres you could have a square of 10x10 acres. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1| | 2| | 3| |

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You could also have a rectangle of 20x5 acres and that would be 100 square acres.

All possible combinations for square or rectangular shaped areas are:

1x100

2x 50

4x25

5x20

10x10

-Since an acre is ALREADY a square unit (well, kind of - it is actually a rectangular unit of 66 x 660 feet), there is a bit of ignorance, or an intentional practical joke asking for a square acre.

The definition of a cubic acre involves feet to the sixth power on Google, involving around a humorous use of cubic acres to describe Scrooge McDuck's moneybin volume.

But the problem of how to size a rectangular unit have led to many different sizes, definitions. Hopefully the Google unit isn't featured in TOO MANY reports on crazy customary units.