SOLUTION: When is the square root of x greater than x?

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Question 77807: When is the square root of x greater than x?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
graph of and
If you look the graph, you can see that for the interval . The reason is simply because the square root of a number reduces that number. The square root of a fraction, reduces the denominator if the numerator is 1. For instance, the square root of is . Since it shows that is true for values in (0,1).

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