What is 1 squared? What does 1 squared mean? What is the answer to 1 squared? Those are the questions we tackle here!
1 squared can be written as an exponentiation where the base is 1 and the exponent is 2, like this:
12
When the exponent is 2 (aka squared) and the base is 1, you simply multiply 1 by 1 to get the answer. Here is the math to illustrate:
1 squared
= 12
= 1 x 1
= 1
Therefore, the answer to "What is 1 squared?" is
1
For future reference, note that "squared" means that the exponent is 2 regardless of what the base is. Furthermore, when you get a problem like "What is 1 squared?", just picture a square where all the sides are 1. The area of the square is the same as 1 squared.
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