Question

Explain and show how to find the square root of 50 to the nearest tenth

Answer 1

7.1

Explanation:

Squared root of 50 is 7.071067812

To the nearest tenth means just 2 numbers like you have in 10.

Approximate the values from right to left till you have just two values . Remember when approximating , values from 5 to 9 are taken as 1 while values from 0 to 4 are taken as 0 and then added to the next value.

If you do this , you’ll end up

getting to 7.1