How Do You Figure Out if a Square Root is Bigger than Another Number?

How Do You Figure Out if a Square Root is Bigger than Another Number?

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Comparing a square root to another number can be rough, unless you remember that squaring is opposite of taking the square root. Then things get much easier! See how it's done in this tutorial.

Keywords:

  • problem
  • inequality
  • square root
  • decimal
  • compare
  • inequality
  • square both sides

Background Tutorials

  • Equations to Inequalities

      • What's an Inequality?What's an Inequality?

      What's an Inequality?

      Inequalities come up all the time when you're working algebra problems. In this tutorial you'll learn what an inequality is, and you'll see all the common inequality symbols that you're likely to see :)

Further Exploration

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