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Example Question #24 : Decimals
Convert the decimal to fraction form and reduce it to its simplest form.
In order to convert to a fraction, you would first begin with
, because the decimal literally reads
thousandths. You can reduce by
a few times or just begin by dividing both numbers by
to get
.
Example Question #21 : Square Roots And Operations
If all real values of lie between 0 and 1, which of the following is always greater than 1?
If is greater than 0, then adding 1 to
will make it greater than 1. Taking a number between 0 and 1 to a power results in a smaller number.
Example Question #22 : Square Roots And Operations
Evaluate:
0.082
0.064
0.00064
0.64
0.0064
0.00064
0.0064
0.08 * 0.08
First square 8:
8 * 8 = 64
Then move the decimal four places to the left:
0.0064
Example Question #1 : How To Find The Square Root Of A Decimal
Find the square root of the following decimal:
The easiest way to find the square root of a fraction is to convert it into scientific notation.
The key is that the exponent in scientific notation has to be even for a square root because the square root of an exponent is diving it by two. The square root of 9 is 3, so the square root of 8.1 is a little bit less than 3, around 2.8
Example Question #2 : How To Find The Square Root Of A Decimal
Find the square root of the following decimal:
To find the square root of this decimal we convert it into scientific notation.
Because has an even exponent, we can divide the exponenet by 2 to get its square root.
Example Question #1 : How To Find The Square Root Of A Decimal
Find the square root of the following decimal:
This problem can be solve more easily by rewriting the decimal into scientific notation.
Because has an even exponent, we can take the square root of it by dividing it by 2. The square root of 4 is 2, and the square root of 1 is 1, so the square root of 2.5 is less than 2 and greater than 1.
Example Question #31 : Decimals
Find the square root of the following decimal:
This problem becomes much simpler if we rewrite the decimal in scientific notation
Because has an even exponent, we can take its square root by dividing it by two. The square root of 4 is 2, and because 3.6 is a little smaller than 4, its square root is a little smaller than 2, around 1.9
Example Question #3 : How To Find The Square Root Of A Decimal
Find the square root of the following decimal:
To find the square root of this decimal we convert it into scientific notation.
Because has an even exponent, we can divide the exponenet by 2 to get its square root. The square root of 9 is 3, and the square root of 4 is two, so the square root of 6.4 is between 3 and 2, around 2.53
Example Question #1 : How To Find The Square Root Of A Decimal
Find the square root of the following decimal:
To find the square root of this decimal we convert it into scientific notation.
Because has an even exponent, we can divide the exponenet by 2 to get its square root.
is a perfect square, whose square root is
.
Example Question #4 : Basic Squaring / Square Roots
Find the square root of the following decimal:
To find the square root of this decimal we convert it into scientific notation.
Because has an even exponent, we can divide the exponenet by 2 to get its square root. The square root of 9 is 3, so the square root of 10 should be a little larger than 3, around 3.16
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