Squares & Square Roots PART I: Perfect Squares DEFINITION: the square of a whole number notes.
Math 8 Date: 3.1 Squares and Square Roots · 2019. 2. 21. · 3.1 Squares and Square Roots...
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Math 8 Date:______________
3.1 Squares and Square Roots
Determine the prime factorization of the following numbers:
32 144
The square of a number is A Prime number is:
a number multiplied by itself
3 x 3 = 9
32 = 9 * The square of a whole number is a: _____________________________
List the first 10 perfect squares:
Julia knows that her square ipod has a side length of 4 cm2. What is the area of the ipod?
Solution:
Method 1: Method 2:
A perfect square is:
Example 1
Raj has a square ipod nano with an area of 16 cm2. What is the length of each side?
Example 2
The evil math teacher Mr. Root told his grade 8 students to run twice around the
perimeter of the school field (as they didn’t finish their homework). The Area of the
square field is 2916m2. What is the distance that the students had to run?
A Square Root is: Find the square root of the following numbers:
64 49 81
How does squaring a number relate to taking the square root of number?