{"id":12234,"date":"2015-09-10T20:59:56","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T20:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=12234"},"modified":"2017-09-09T01:23:56","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T01:23:56","slug":"math-ordering-radicals-least-to-greatest-no-calculator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/math-ordering-radicals-least-to-greatest-no-calculator\/","title":{"rendered":"Math:  ordering radicals least to greatest, no calculator"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor visits another common topic of Math 10.<\/h1>\n<p>Consider the following question:<\/p>\n<p><b>Without a calculator, place in order, least to greatest, the following list:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u221a48,-100,5\u221a2,7<\/p>\n<p>Solution:<\/p>\n<p>We know that -100, the only negative, must be least.<\/p>\n<p>Among \u221a48,5\u221a2 and 7, we need to use the trick of putting a number to radical form:<\/p>\n<p>7=\u221a49<\/p>\n<p>With 5\u221a2, we can do the following:<\/p>\n<p>5\u221a2=\u221a25\u221a2=\u221a50<\/p>\n<p>So the original list<\/p>\n<p>\u221a48,-100,5\u221a2,7<\/p>\n<p>becomes<\/p>\n<p>\u221a48,-100, \u221a50, \u221a49<\/p>\n<p>which is easily put in order from least to greatest:<\/p>\n<p>-100,\u221a48, \u221a49, \u221a50<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s not forget to rewrite each number in the form it was given:<\/p>\n<p>-100, \u221a48, 7, 5\u221a2<\/p>\n<p>I hope you&#8217;ll agree the process is relatively easy:)<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Cambpell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tutor visits another common topic of Math 10. Consider the following question: Without a calculator, place in order, least to greatest, the following list: \u221a48,-100,5\u221a2,7 Solution: We know that -100, the only negative, must be least. Among \u221a48,5\u221a2 and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/math-ordering-radicals-least-to-greatest-no-calculator\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Math:  ordering radicals least to greatest, no calculator<\/span> Read more \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1035],"class_list":["post-12234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math","tag-ordering-radicals-without-a-calculator"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12234"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23518,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12234\/revisions\/23518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}