How can you approximate the square root of 30?

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Braeden Ritter

Mathematics

15 January, 13:22

How can you approximate the square root of 30?

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Cohen Bailey · Answer 1

You can approximate the square root of 30 by taking the square root of a number close to it. This is called local linearization. You can take the square root of 36, which is 6, and the square root of 25, which is 5, and state that the square root of 30 is approximately somewhere between 5 and 6