How do you find the square root of 3.24?

1 Answer
Sep 14, 2015

Notice how 324 is a perfect square. sqrt(324) = pm18. Therefore...

sqrt(3.24) = sqrt(324/100) = sqrt(324)/(sqrt(100))= pm18/10 = color(blue)(pm1.8)

You can check by determining that sqrt(3) = 1.732 and sqrt(4) = 2, and 1.8 is between them, while being closer to 1.732, corresponding to 3.24 being closer to 3 than to 4.