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All right, friends, let's take a look at this problem together.
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So what we are doing is converting square miles to square meters.
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And so what we're doing is we're looking at a lake.
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And we see that lake is 15 .2 square miles.
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And what we want to do is to convert this to square meters.
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Now, we could draw a gigantic lake, or we could just draw one square mile, and then we could do some multiplying.
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So let's go ahead and do it that way.
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Let's think about a one mile by one mile square.
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So i'm going to say one mile and one mile this way.
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But if we're converting to meters, what we really need to know is what the equivalent is for one mile to a certain amount of meters.
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And what we know is that there are 1 ,609 meters, or excuse me, 0 .3 ,000 .3 .5 .000.
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Meters in one mile.
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So when we come over this way, we can trade this information and we can say 1 ,609 .34 miles.
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And then we can say 1 ,609 .34 miles.
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And then we are able to find area.
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So again, area is going to equal our length times our width, our long side and our short side, or in this case, because it's a square, they're the same.
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So side squared...