Calculate the square roots of the following perfect squares:
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. Notice that , therefore we are sure that it is a perfect square. -
. Notice that and . -
where
See development and solution
Development:
- As is indicated,
so we can write the root as .
Now, using the first property of the square root, we have:
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Writing inside the root the information given in the statement, we have
and if we use the second property of the square root Now we proceed as in the previous paragraph, using the first property of roots and: -
With the table of most common perfect squares we have
- We realise that we cannot calculate the root of
because it is not a perfect square, therefore we just solve the other roots and then gather together the terms with a root on the one hand, and those that do not on the other