Answer:
The area of a square with side length of 2 inches is 4 square inches.
The area of a circle with radius 1.2 inches is:
[tex]\pi \times (1.2) ^{2} \\ = 3.14 \times 1.44 \\ = 4.5216 \: square \: inches[/tex]
That is approximately 4.5 square inches.
Hence, the area of the square (4) is less than {<} that of the circle (4.5)!