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Perfect Square Numbers

This document defines perfect square numbers as rational numbers whose square roots are also rational numbers. It provides the examples of 25 and 6.25 as perfect squares and explains that numbers like 2, 3, 5, 6, etc. are not perfect squares because their square roots are irrational. A table is included for the student to determine which numbers presented are perfect squares and which are not.

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Perfect Square Numbers

This document defines perfect square numbers as rational numbers whose square roots are also rational numbers. It provides the examples of 25 and 6.25 as perfect squares and explains that numbers like 2, 3, 5, 6, etc. are not perfect squares because their square roots are irrational. A table is included for the student to determine which numbers presented are perfect squares and which are not.

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Name_____________________________Class_________________Date______________ Complete the table; no calculator Perfect Square numbers: Rational numbers with square roots that are

rational numbers. Examples: 25 is a perfect square number; the square roots of 25 are 5 : 5x5=25 and -5: -5x-5=25 6.25 is a perfect square number since the square roots of 6.25 are 2.5: 2.5x2.5=6.25 and -2.5: -2.5x-2.5= 6.25 What is not a perfect square number? 2,3,5,6,7,8,10They can not be written as a product of a number times itself. Square root undoes squaring. You can not take the square root of a negative number, since no number times itself would never be negative.

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x 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 30 40 0.5 0.2 0.8

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