Question

this one please @Moose23 The length of one side of a square can be determined by square rooting the area. Suppose the area of a square picture frame is represented by 2475v15. Determine the exact length of one side of the picture frame

Answer 1

anyone?

Answer 2

@atlas please please help me

Answer 3

what do you mean by 2475v15 ??

Answer 4

What is the area of the square again?

Answer 5

i mean 2475v^15 is that better?

Answer 6

@atlast

Answer 7

So its (area)^15/2. Your exponent here will be a fraction.

Answer 8

That will equal the length of the side

Answer 9

i do not understand please explain in a different way :(

Answer 10

Ok, your area equals 2475^15. So 2475 will be multiplied by itself 15 times. Much like how 2^3 is really just 2 times 2 times 2. When you take the square root of a number you're really say "What number can I times by itself to get the number I have now". So if you take the square root of 16 the only number that can be multiplied by itself and equal 16 is 4

Answer 11

We see that 4^2 = 16
and that the square root of 16 = 4
So how do we express that? Well we express 4 times 4 as 4^2
and we write that \[\sqrt{16}\] = 4

Answer 12

it's not 2475^15 it's 2475v^15

Answer 13

But what you might not have seen is that \[\sqrt{16}\] is the exact same as writing \[4^{1/2}\]

Answer 14

yes i know that so what now?

Answer 15

So if you have something raised to the 15th power and you take the square root your exponent becomes 15/2 by fraction mulitplication

Answer 16

So the exact side length is what ever your area was to the (15/2) power

Answer 17

i'm so lost I HATE MATH