The sandbox at a local playground is shaped like a square. the length of one side of the sandbox is 8 ft. what is the area of the sandbox, written as an expression with exponents?

Square's are equal on all sides so if one leg of the square is eight then the others are also and in order to find the area of a square you multiply the height by the width so 8^2 or eight squared is the expression. Your answer is the area is 64 ft^2 and the expression is : 8^2=64