What Unit Should Be Used in Division of Meter Squared by Meters?

[vaironl]

Homework Statement

1,035m^2 / 42m

What unit will I use? m or m^2

Homework Equations

The Attempt at a Solution

25.0m

 

[lewando]

If 42m only has 2 SDs, then so should your answer.

 

[vaironl]

If 42m only has 2 SDs, then so should your answer.

25m ? not m^2

 

[lewando]

Yes. Treat units just like they were any other factor. You would simplify it the same way you would simplify an algebraic expression like 1035a²/25a. Soon you will be exposed to something called dimensional analysis, a very useful thing to understand.