Day: September 16, 2017

This week, we covered more prime factorization and a few square and cube root related questions.

One question I had a bit of trouble with was this one:

The mixed radical can be converted to a mixed radical in simplest form a . The value of a+b to the nearest tenth is ______. 

At first, I did this:

Then I checked the answer and it wasn’t right. I realized what I did wrong so I redid my math which resulted in this:

And it was the right answer.