An acre is a unit of area. It can have many different dimensions and can be in any shape, including regular and irregular polygons. The square footage for 1 acre is 43560 square feet.
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About 15% of an acre.
There's no definite shape or size that an acre has to be. There are an infinite number of different shapes and sizes that all have areas of one acre. If it's an "acre", that only tells you how much ground it covers, but the outline of that area can have any shape. If the acre is 1 mile long, then it's 8ft 3in wide. If it's 4,840ft long, then it's 9ft wide. If it's 360ft long, then it's 121ft wide. If it's 242ft long, then it's 180ft wide. If you have a square block of land that's 1 mile long on each side, you can carve up that land into 640 acres.
Answer: 9,600 ft² = 0.220385 acres (about 22%)
A rectangular lot that's 150-ft wide has to be 290.4-ftlongin order to enclose exactly 1 acre.
An acre is 43,560 square feet. An easy way to remember this is that an acre is 66 feet wide by 660 feet long.