Why is 5 to the second power read as "five squared"?

The surface area (sa) of a cube with a as the length of each of its sides is given by the formula . if the surface area is known, how can you rewrite the formula to find its side?

Will used 20 colored tiles to make a design in art class. 5/20 of his tiles were red. what is an equivalent fraction for the red tiles?

Acompany manufactures large valves, packed in boxes. a shipment consists of 1500 valves packed in 75 boxes. each box has the outer dimensions 1.2 x 0.8 x 1.6 m and the inner dimensions 1.19 x 0.79 x 1.59 m. the boxes are loaded on a vehicle (truck + trailer). the available capacity in the vehicle combination is 140 m3. each valve has a volume of 0.06 m3. - calculate the load factor on the box level (%). - calculate the load factor on the vehicle level (%). - calculate the overall load factor (%).