Is 1296 sqin equal to 186624 sqft?

Answer 1

Well, before we get into actual figures, you can tell right away just by looking

at this thing that something's wrong. Pretty much everybody knows that inches

are smaller than feet, which leads us to suspect right away that a smaller number

of square inches probably can't be equal to a bigger number of square feet.

In this case, I think I know what went wrong, and it falls in the non-mathematical

category of proof-reading. The numbers are correct, but the labels are swapped.

The question was either inadequately proof-read, or else it was carelessly copied

out of the book.

186,624 square inches is the same amount of area as 1,296 square feet