• MonkderZweite
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    It’s an imperial unit based on foot, so there’s why. (4840 square feet, wtf)

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        I get what you mean, but something about the word close bothers me when they were missing 88.8% of the area.

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            One hundred square feet is ten feet by ten feet on a side. Now, change each side to ten yards by ten yards. That means each side is thirty feet long. Thirty feet times thirty feet is nine hundred square feet.

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            3x3. They counted 1x1. 1/9. 8/9 is .8888

            Easy math on divde by 9 1/9. .1111111 2/9 .222222 3/9 .333333 All the way to 9/9 where .9999 equals 1

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            The area is squared, so 12-(1/3)2 which is .888 or about 88.8%