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4. What is the square root of 4,372594 ?

Ans. 2,091 +

5. What is the square root of,00032754 ?

Ans.

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6. What is the square root of ,00103041? Ans. ,0321. 7. What is the square root of 4,426816?

8. What is the square root of 47,692836?

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Ans. 6,906.

Q. How do you extract the square root of a decimal fraction? When there is a decimal and a whole number joined together, will the same rule apply?

CASE III.

§ 183. To extract the square root of a vulgar fraction.

RULE.

1. Reduce mixed numbers to improper fractions, and compound fractions to simple ones, and then reduce the fraction to its lowest terms.

II. Extract the square root of the numerator and denominator separately, if they have exact roots; but when they have not, reduce the fraction to a decimal and extract the root as in Case II.

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Q. How do you extract the square root of a vulgar fraction?

EXTRACTION OF THE CUBE ROOT.

§ 184. To extract the cube root of a number is to find a second number which being multiplied into itself twice, shall produce the given number.

Thus, 2 is the cube root of 8; for, 2×2×2=8: and 3 is the cube root of 27; for, 3×3×3=27.

2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. 64 125 216 343 512 729.

Roots

1,

Cubes

1

8

27

From which we see, that the cube of units will not give a higher order than hundreds. We may also remark, that the cube of one ten, or 10, is 1000: and the cube of 9 tens or 90, is 729,000; and hence, the cube of tens will not give a lower denomination than thousands, nor a higher denomination than hundreds of thousands. Hence also, if a number contains more than three figures its cube root will contain more than one; if the number contains more than six figures the root will contain more than two; and so on, every three figures from the right giving one additional place in the root, and the figures which remain at the left hand although less than three, will also give one place in the root.

Let us now see how the cube of any number, as 16 is formed. Sixteen is composed of 1 ten and 6 units, and may be written 10+6. Now to find the cube of 16 or of 10+6, we must multiply the number by itself twice.

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1. By examining the composition of this number it will be found that the first part 1000 is the cube of the tens: that is

10x10x10=1000.

2. The second part 1800 is equal to three times the square of the tens multiplied by the units: that is

3x(10) 2×6=3x100×6=1800.

3. The third part 1080 is equal to three times the square of the units multiplied by the tens: that is

3x62x10=3x36x10=1080.

4. The fourth part is equal to the cube of the units: that is

63=6×6×6=216.

Let it now be required to extract the cube root of the number 4096.

Since the number contains more than three figures, we know that the root will contain at least units and tens.

4 096(16

1

12+3=3)36 (9-8-7-6 162=4 096

Separating the three right hand figures from the 4, we know that the cube of the tens will be found in the 4. Now, 1 is the greatest cube in 4.

Hence, we place the root 1 on the right, and this is the tens of the required root. We then cube 1 and subtract the result from 4, and to the remainder we bring down the first figure 0 of the next period.

Now, we have seen that the second part of the cube of 16, viz., 1800 being three times the square of the tens multiplied by the units, will have no significant figure of a less denomination than hundreds, and consequently will make up a part of the 30 hundreds above. But this 30 hundreds also contains all the hundreds which come from the 3rd and 4th parts of the cube of 16. If this were not the case, the 30 hundreds divided by three times the square of the tens would give the unit figure exactly.

Forming a divisor of three times the square of the tens we find the quotient figure to be ten-but this we know to be too large. Placing 9 in the root and cubing 19, we find the result to be 6859. Then trying 8 we find the cube of 18 still too large-but when we take 6 we find the exact number. Hence the cube root of 4096 is 16.

CASE I.

§ 185. To extract the cube root of a whole number.

RULE.

I. Point off the given number into periods of three figures each, by placing a dot over the place of units, a second over the place of thousands, and so on to the left the left hand period will often contain less than three places of figures.

II. Seek the greatest cube in the first period, and set its root on the right after the manner of a quotient in division. Subtract the cube of this figure from the first period, and to the remainder bring down the first figure of the next period, and call the number the dividend.

III. Take three times the square of the root just found for a divisor and see how often it is contained in the dividend and place the quotient for a second figure of the root. Then cube the figures of the root thus found, and if their cube be greater than the first two periods of the given number, diminish the last figure, but if it be less, subtract it from the first two periods, and to the remainder bring down the first figure of the next period, for a new dividend.

IV. Take three times the square of the whole root for a new divisor, and seek how often it is contained in the new dividend the quotient will be the third figure of the root. Cube the whole root and subtract the result from the first three periods of the given number, and proceed in a similar way for all the periods.

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2. What is the cube root of 389017?
3. What is the cube root of 5735339?
4. What is the cube root of 32461759 ?
5. What is the cube root of 84604519 ?
6. What is the cube root of 259694072 ?
7. What is the cube root of 48228544?
8. What is the cube root of 27054036008 ?

Ans. 73.
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Ans. 319.
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Ans. 638.

Ans. 364.

Ans. 3002.

Q. What is required when we are to extract the cube root of a number? How do you extract the cube root of a whole number?

CASE II.

§ 186. To extract the cube root of a decimal fraction

RULE.

Annex ciphers to the decimal, if necessary, so that it shall consist of 3, 6, 9, &c., places. Then put the first point over the place of thousandths, the second over the place of millionths, and so on over every third place to the right; after which extract the root as in whole numbers.

NOTE 1. There will be as many decimal places in the root as there are periods in the given number.

NOTE 2. The same rule applies when the given number is composed of a whole number and a decimal.

NOTE 3. If in extracting the root of a number there is a remainder, after all the periods have been brought down, periods of ciphers may be annexed by considering them as decimals.

EXAMPLES.

Ans. ,54.

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Ans. 2,35.

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1. What is the cube root of,157464? 2. What is the cube root of ,870983875? 3. What is the cube root of 12,977875? 4. What is the cube root of ,751089429. 5. What is the cube root of ,353393243. 6. What is the cube root of 3,408862625. Ans. 1,505. 7. What is the cube root of 27,708101576.

Ans. 3,026.

Q. How do you extract the cube root of a decimal fraction? How many decimal places will there be in the root? Will the same rule apply when there is a whole number and a decimal? In extracting the root if there is a remainder, what may be done?

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