Big Ideas Math: Modeling Real Life, Grade 8
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1. Finding Square Roots
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Exercise 8 Page 375

Think of a number that when raised to the second power results in 425.

- 25 and 25

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We want to find both square roots of 425. ± sqrt(4/25)We need to think of a number that when raised to the second power results in 425. We can see that this number is 25.
(2/5)^2
2^2/5^2
4/25 âś“
With this information, we can say that the square roots of 425 are ± 25, which can be also written as - 25 and 25. ± sqrt(4/25) = ± 2/5