NCERT Solutions Ganita Prakash Chapter 6 In-text Question — Area

Book page 137 Updated on2026-09-05

Q1.
Area of a square = ________ Area of a rectangle = _______
Answer

Fill the two boxes like this:

Area of a square = side × side
Area of a rectangle = length × width
Where these formulas come from (grid paper): draw a rectangle 5 units long and 4 units wide on squared paper. It contains 4 rows of 5 unit squares, so counting them gives 4 × 5 = 20 unit squares. You do not have to count one by one — rows × squares in a row is the same as length × width. A square is just a rectangle whose length and width are equal, so its area is side × side.
Remember the unit: area is always in square units — sq cm, sq m, sq km — because we are counting squares.
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