An engineer designing a building caculates that the diagonal of a rectangular room measures √23 meters. Which of the following m
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To find , Beau found
and
. He said that since 5 is between 4 and 9,
, is between 2 and 3. Beau thinks a good estimate for
, is
Is his estimate high or low? How do you know?
Answer:
The estimation is high because 5 is very close to 4 so will also be very close to
which is lower than the estimate
In order to get a good estimate
The first step is to choose a number between 2 and 3 let say 2.8 , 2,85 , 2.9 and the square them
i.e
From here we can see that lies between 2.2 and 2.3 but is closer to 2.2
So a good estimate for is 2.2
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