Question

How do you find a square root of a decimal?

Answer 1

same method how do you find for normal numbers

Answer 2

Explanation: To find the square root of this decimal we convert it into scientific notation. Because has an even exponent, we can divide the exponenet by 2 to get its square root. The square root of 36 is 6, so the square root of 40 should be a little more than 6, around 6.32.