Big Ideas Math: Modeling Real Life, Grade 8
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1. Finding Square Roots
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Exercise 19 Page 376

Remember the order of operations.

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Practice makes perfect
To evaluate the given numeric expression, we need to remember the order of operations. The acronym PEMDAS can help with that!
pemdas
Let's now consider our expression.

sqrt(81/9) - 7 We first need to calculate the square root. To find the value of the root, we simplify its radicand, which in this case is a quotient. sqrt(81/9)-7 divide ⟶ sqrt(9)-7 Next, we can calculate the square root. Because we know that 3^2=9, we know that sqrt(9)=3. sqrt(9)-7 calculate root ⟶ 3-7 Now we can finish evaluating our expression by subtracting the remaining terms. 3-7 ⇔ - 4