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Here's your shmoop math du jour:

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What is the square root of 5.206 times 10 to the seventh to the nearest hundredth?

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Here are your options...

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Okay, so we need to figure out the value of the

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square root of a number to the closest hundredth.

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Let's repeat the most important part of that... it'll save us a whole lot of work.

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TO THE CLOSEST HUNDREDTH.

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One more time, with feeling... TO THE CLOSEST HUNDREDTH

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Only one of the answers is a number that includes the right number of

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numbers after the decimal point... to the hundredths place.

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Now, if we can remember what the hundredths place is,

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we can answer this question in a snap.

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If not, we'll tell you just this once. You're on your own for the test, though.

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The hundredTHs place, with the "T-H" sound

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at the end, is two spots to the right of the decimal point.

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Not three, like its buddy the thousandths place, or one, like the tenths place.

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So which of the answer choices has two numbers after the decimal point?

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Option D, 7215.26.

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Saves us a lot of time punching numbers on our calculator, doesn't it?

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