if an acre was a square
Unlike the square foot, square yard, square meter, etc., the acre has no linear dimensions. It is purely a unit of area, = 43,560 square feet. The two sides of a 1-acre rectangular lot can be any lengths as long as multiplying one by the other gives 43,560 (if the sides were measured in feet). if a 1-acre lot is a square, its sides will be 208.7103256 feet long (208.7103256 Ã 208.7103256 = 43,560). Imagine a sidewalk 5 feet wide. If it were (43560 Ã· 5 = ) 8712 feet long it would take up an acre, a long skinny acre.