What is 17 squared? What does 17 squared mean? What is the answer to 17 squared? Those are the questions we tackle here!
17 squared can be written as an exponentiation where the base is 17 and the exponent is 2, like this:
172
When the exponent is 2 (aka squared) and the base is 17, you simply multiply 17 by 17 to get the answer. Here is the math to illustrate:
17 squared
= 172
= 17 x 17
= 289
Therefore, the answer to "What is 17 squared?" is
289
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 17 squared?", just picture a square where all the sides are 17. The area of the square is the same as 17 squared.
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