Big Ideas Math: Modeling Real Life, Grade 8
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1. Finding Square Roots
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Exercise 18 Page 376

Think of a number that when raised to the second power results in 1.44.

- 1.2 and 1.2

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We want to find both square roots of 1.44. ± sqrt(1.44)We need to think of a number that when raised to the second power results in 1.44. This number is 1.2.
(1.2)^2
1.44 âś“
With this information, we can say that the square roots of 1.44 are ±1.2, which can be also written as - 1.2 and 1.2. ± sqrt(1.44) = ± 1.2