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Use Geometric Mean to solve for the value of x. Leave your answer in SIMPLIFIED radical form.

Use Geometric Mean to solve for the value of x. Leave your answer in SIMPLIFIED radical-example-1
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Using the geometric mean we can estimate the x value as:


\begin{gathered} x^2=20^2+20*15 \\ x^2=700 \\ x=√(700)=√(100*7)=√(10^2*7)=10√(7) \end{gathered}

The answer is:


x=10√(7)

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