How do you calculate 216 square feet into linear feet?

Answer 1

With great difficulty (that is it is impossible) without further information:

• 216 square feet represent an area; it has twodimensions (like a width and a depth)
• linear feet (or just feet) represent a length; it has one dimension (and is used to measure things like width and depth).

To reduce an area by one dimension so that it becomes a length requires dividing by a length.

So without knowing the shape of the area and what length of the area you want to measure (and possibly some length of the area), conversion is impossible. Indeed, 216 sq feet can be converted into any linear feet you want to! examples:

• Radius of circle with area 216 sq ft

radius = √(216 sq ft ÷ π)

~= 8.29 ft

• Width of rectangle with area 216 sq ft and length 36 ft

width = 216 sq ft ÷ 36 ft

= 6 ft

• Circumference of circle with area 216 sq ft

circumference = √(4 x 216 sq ft x π)

~= 52.10 ft

• Length of perimeter of square with area 216 sq ft

perimeter = 4 x √(216 sq ft)

~= 58.79 ft

• Base of triangle with area 216 sq ft and height 12 ft

base = 2 x 216 sq ft ÷ 12 ft

= 36 ft