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It's an imperial unit based on foot, so there's why. (4840 square feet, wtf)
Close, it's 4840 square yards not square feet,.
dict.cc lied to me!
I get what you mean, but something about the word close bothers me when they were missing 88.8% of the area.
One hundred square feet is ten feet by ten feet on a side. Now, change each side to ten yards by ten yards. That means each side is thirty feet long. Thirty feet times thirty feet is nine hundred square feet.
3x3. They counted 1x1. 1/9. 8/9 is .8888
Easy math on divde by 9 1/9. .1111111 2/9 .222222 3/9 .333333 All the way to 9/9 where .9999 equals 1
The area is squared, so 1^2-(1/3)^2 which is .888 or about 88.8%