You are writing up plans for building a table from a 4-foot-by-8-foot rectangular sheet of plywood. The table top will be a square, and the top face must be sanded. Which of the following is closest to the side length, in feet, of the largest square you can cut from the sheet of plywood?

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The largest square you can cut from a rectangle will have a side length equal to the smallest dimension of the rectangle. Here, that is 4 feet.
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