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Lesson: Challenging Arithmetic - 28t01

Arithmetic: Root Questions Continued

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Square Root Questions

Task

Click on the correct response and then click Continue.

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Countinue

For starters, you can automatically get rid of Choice (1) - you can't simply add the quantities under the radical signs when adding square roots, which is exactly what Choice (1) does. There are two approaches to the correct answer here. One is to pull the squares out from under the radical signs, like so:

Now that you have the same number under the radical signs, you can finally add them:

, making Choice (4) correct.

Another valid approach is to guesstimate the value, like so:

Now that you have your guesstimate, go to the answer choices and make guesstimates for each of those values. You'll see that only Choice (4) makes sense.

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