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What is the square root of 0.25?

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Mar 4, 2018

$0.5$ $0.5$

Explanation:

$\sqrt{0.25}$ $sqrt0.25$

$\Rightarrow \sqrt{0.5 \times 0.5}$ $=> sqrt(0.5xx0.5)$

$\Rightarrow \sqrt{{(0.5)}^{2}}$ $=> sqrt[(0.5)^2]$

$\Rightarrow 0.5$ $=> 0.5$

Mar 4, 2018

$0.5$ $0.5$

Explanation:

$\sqrt{0.25}$ $sqrt0.25$

$\Rightarrow \sqrt{0.5 \times 0.5}$ $=> sqrt(0.5xx0.5)$

$\Rightarrow \sqrt{{(0.5)}^{2}}$ $=> sqrt[(0.5)^2]$

$\Rightarrow {(0.5)}^{2 \times \frac{1}{2}}$ $=> (0.5)^(2xx1/2)$

$\Rightarrow {(0.5)}^{1}$ $=> (0.5)^1$

$\Rightarrow 0.5$ $=> 0.5$

Mar 4, 2018

$\frac{1}{2} or 0.5$ $1/2 " or " 0.5$

Explanation:

Another way to thing about it:

$\sqrt{0.25} = \sqrt{\frac{1}{4}} = \frac{\sqrt{1}}{\sqrt{4}} = \frac{1}{2} or 0.5$ $sqrt(0.25) = sqrt(1/4) = sqrt(1)/sqrt(4) = 1/2 " or " 0.5$

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