A foot is approx. 1/3 of a meter. Why isn’t a sq ft 1/3rd of a sq meter?

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A foot is 0,30m and a sq ft is 0,09m. I know some will say because 0,3 times 0,3 is 0,09 but that wouldn’t explain the break of logic as I perceive it.

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To visualize it:

The red square is a square foot (so around 30cm by 30cm), and the larger set of green squares is a square meter (~ 1m by 1m)

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You can see that the red square is just one ninth the size of the larger green square.

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