What is 2 squared? What does 2 squared mean? What is the answer to 2 squared? Those are the questions we tackle here!
2 squared can be written as an exponentiation where the base is 2 and the exponent is 2, like this:
22
When the exponent is 2 (aka squared) and the base is 2, you simply multiply 2 by 2 to get the answer. Here is the math to illustrate:
2 squared
= 22
= 2 x 2
= 4
Therefore, the answer to "What is 2 squared?" is
4
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 2 squared?", just picture a square where all the sides are 2. The area of the square is the same as 2 squared.
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