Answer:
Her vegetable garden is a square. The equation for the area of a square is length times width. But since all four sides of a square are equal, it is the same thing as length times length. So in this case, since you have been given the length (17 ft) you simply have to square it (so 17 to the power of 2). If the squared answer is what she has calculated (34 ft squared), the the answer would be yes and if it is anything else, the answer is no.
