The area of the rectangle is 12 cm. What are the sides of the rectangle?

The area of a rectangle is found as the product of length and width. Hence, we need to find such numbers, the product of which is 12. There can be an infinite set of such numbers. Let’s consider all the options with integers:

12 cm ^ 2 = 1 cm * 12 cm = 12 cm * 1 cm;

12 cm ^ 2 = 2 cm * 6 cm = 6 cm * 2 cm;

12 cm ^ 2 = 3 cm * 4 cm = 4 cm * 3 cm.

Consider several options with fractional numbers:

12 cm ^ 2 = 0.1 cm * 120 cm;

12 cm ^ 2 = 0.6 cm * 20 cm.

The variant with irrational numbers:

12 cm ^ 2 = √12 cm * √12 cm.