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Okay C t s baring math There's another drill for

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you Here we go What is the approximate value of

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the square root of fifteen Please Well it's a number

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fifteen is not a perfect square Taking its square rude

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makes it angry and irrational Usually result gives us an

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infinite number of non repeating decimal places An irrational number

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But we can still estimate in perfect square roots Right

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Well the best strategy is to go through the squares

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until he passed the number we want Once that happens

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we know that we're close to the roots suffering since

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three squared is nine were not in fifteen yet So

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given that singers shot there like we said four square

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to sixteen who too far But it's good enough for

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our purposes because now we know the square root of

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fifteen has to be between three and four and the 00:00:49.143 --> [endTime] answer is b that's it Bye

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