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How do I find the points that most closely represents the negative squareroot of 77?

How do I find the points that most closely represents the negative squareroot of 77?-example-1
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First, we see that


\begin{gathered} (-8.8)^2=77.44 \\ (-8.7)^2=75.69 \end{gathered}

Then the number o is clearly the farest number. Since m is closer to -8.8 and this number is very close to the negative square root of 77, then the answer is m

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