Big Ideas Math: Modeling Real Life, Grade 8
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1. Finding Square Roots
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Exercise 13 Page 378

Think of a number that when raised to the second power results in 144.

12 and -12

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We want to find both square roots of 144. ± sqrt(144)We need to think of a number that when raised to the second power results in 144. This number is 12.
12^2
144 âś“
With this information, we can say that the square roots of 144 are ± 12, which can be also written as 12 and -12. ± sqrt(144) = ± 12