Big Ideas Math: Modeling Real Life, Grade 8
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1. Finding Square Roots
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Exercise 25 Page 378

Think of a number that when raised to the second power results in 2.25.

- 1.5

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We want to find the negative square root of 2.25. - sqrt(2.25)We need to think of a number that when raised to the second power results in 2.25. This number is 1.5.
(1.5)^2
2.25 âś“
With this information, we can say that the negative square root of 2.25 is - 1.5. - sqrt(2.25) = - 1.5