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Okay Geometric masked the shmoop ing people's here's square what's

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the area of the square in square units using an

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ancient and incredibly complex method called counting the length of

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the sides on the graph What we find that this

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square has sides eight units long that was really hard

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to squares areas equal to the length of one side

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squared So the area of the square is eight squared

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equals well sixty four square units Alternatively if you wanted

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to flex your two d skills and coordinate geometry well

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you could have calculated the distance between two points to

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find the length of one side of the square and

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then looking at the top right corner we can see

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that one side starts it four Comma five right there

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and goes down to the point for negative Three We

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don't need to worry about the distance formula since the

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line is vertical and on ly the why value changes

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from one point to the other The length of the

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line can then be calculated in terms of the difference

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between the two Why coordinates five and then subtracting the

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negative three there So that gets us eight Yeah the

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measurement of one side of the square gives us enough

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info to find the area of square area which is

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sixty for have you ever said a word so many

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times it starts losing its meaning Square square Where Yeah 00:01:19.917 --> [endTime] weird

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