What is the standand length x width of 20 acres?

Answer 1

There are really no "standard" dimensions to an acre. An acre is a unit to measure an area of land or water (or both). Other units used to measure an area include square inches, square feet, square yards, square rods, and square miles. An acre falls between a square rod and a square mile. (If you don't live in a farming community, you may never have heard of square rods. A rod is 16.5 feet long.) There are exactly 640 acres in a square mile. There are exactly 43,560 square feet, or 4840 square yards, in an acre. The area of a football field, between the goal lines, is a little larger than an acre A rectangular area of land that measured exactly 1 foot wide by 43,560 feet (or 8.25 miles) long would contain exactly one acre. Likewise, a rectangular area that measured exactly 100 feet wide by 435.6 feet long would also contain exactly one acre. A square area that measured exactly 208.71032557111303591192697393256 feet on each side would contain exactly one acre. A square area that measured exactly 933.3809511662427322091145579784 feet on each side would contain exactly 20 acres. (By the way, the first figure above with long decimal is simply the square root of 43,560. Likewise, the second is simply the square root of 43,560 x 20.) To refer to a "square acre" when measuring an area is redundant. The term "square acre" would only be used to describe the actual shape of the area as being a square. To refer to the other units of measurement, when the shape of the area is actually a square, one would say, example, "This lot is 100 feet square." This means that the dimensions of the lot are 100 feet by 100 feet, and that the lot is actually in the shape of a square. Note, however, that an area which is 100 feet square contains 10,000 square feet. There is a big difference between the terms "square feet" and "feet square."