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What geometric shape?Since you failed to mention the shape of the area, we will have to assume it's a rectangle of some sort. (Note that a square is a special case of rectangle.)

There are an infinite number of rectangles that will contain a given area.

length x width = area

One equation like this cannot be used to find twounknown quantities. You would have to be given more information: perhaps the perimeter or either the width or the length, or perhaps you have been told the ratio of length to width.

Alternatively, if you know that your rectangle is in fact a square, then its length and width equal the square root of the area.

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