Question

What could be the possible "one's" digits of the square root of the number 183184? 2 or 8 4 or 6 2 or 6 only 2

Answer 1

2 or 8

Explanation:

Place value can be defined as the numerical value representing a digit owing to its position in a number. Some examples of the various place values used in representing each digit are tenths, hundredths, thousandths, unit, tens, hundreds, thousands etc.

Given the following number;

183184

Taking the square root, we have;

√183184 = 428

• The place value of 4 is hundreds.
• The place value of 2 is tens.
• The place value of 8 is ones or units (8 is in ones place).*

Therefore, the possible "one's" digits of the square root of the number 183184 is 2 or 8.