Question

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

Answer 1

Answer:

$\sqrt{50}=7.1$

Step-by-step explanation:

We want to find the square root of 50;

We need to first rewrite 50 as a prime factorization.

$\sqrt{50}=\sqrt{25\times 2}$

We now split the square root to get:

$\sqrt{50}=\sqrt{25}\times \sqrt{2}$

Take square root to get:

$\sqrt{50}=5 \sqrt{2}$

$\sqrt{50}=5(1.414)=7.07$

To the nearest tenth we have $\sqrt{50}=7.1$