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I am attempting to help my daughter with her home work and need a refresher on square roots (not the common ones like 9, or 36, or 81). Thanks for any assistance
Hello Melissa
The Process of multiplying a number by itself is known as squaring a number and sometimes it seems doubling a number but doubling is only multiplying the number by 2.
Square roots are sometimes called radicals.
The notion “square roots” is the inversion of the notion “square of numbers”.
Therefore the operation “Extracting square roots” is the inverse of operation of squaring.
You also remember that if a number y 0 is the square of a non negative number X(X0) then the number X is called the square root of y. symbolically we can denote it as Y. The symbol is called a radical sign.
Recall that numbers whose square root are natural numbers (1, 2, 3, 4, 5…) and not fractions or decimals are known to have perfect squares.
For instance 36 49 256 1024 are perfect squares.
There are also numbers having non perfect square
2 10 58 and 17 are one of the plenty numbers that are not perfect squares.
I was just recapping some facts about square roots. If you have any question I am ready to help you and your daughter indeed. It’s my pleasure.
Thankz
Michael
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I can answer questions regarding Relations, linear functions and equations, Squares and square roots, Translation and Similarity, Special Properties of Right Angled Triangles, Measurement of Area and Volume, algebra. I can also answer questions related to Pre calculus, Limits and Continuity, Derivatives Applications of Derivatives, High school math in general. I can’t answer questions of the following type. Power Series, Multiple Integrals, Fourier series, Vector valued Functions.
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