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What is the approximate value of
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Okay C t s baring math There's another drill for
- 00:04
you Here we go What is the approximate value of
- 00:08
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
- 00:26
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
- 00:33
we know that we're close to the roots suffering since
- 00:35
three squared is nine were not in fifteen yet So
- 00:38
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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