Big Ideas Math: Modeling Real Life, Grade 8
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1. Finding Square Roots
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Exercise 12 Page 378

Think of a number that when raised to the second power results in 4.

2 and -2

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