What is 20 squared? What does 20 squared mean? What is the answer to 20 squared? Those are the questions we tackle here!
20 squared can be written as an exponentiation where the base is 20 and the exponent is 2, like this:
202
When the exponent is 2 (aka squared) and the base is 20, you simply multiply 20 by 20 to get the answer. Here is the math to illustrate:
20 squared
= 202
= 20 x 20
= 400
Therefore, the answer to "What is 20 squared?" is
400
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 20 squared?", just picture a square where all the sides are 20. The area of the square is the same as 20 squared.
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