Question

find the square root of 1.473796

Answer 1

This problem can be solve more easily by rewriting the decimal into scientific notation. Because has an even exponent, we can take the square root of it by dividing it by 2. The square root of 4 is 2, and the square root of 1 is 1, so the square root of 2.5 is less than 2 and greater than 1.