SOLUTION: If the area of a square is 29 square inches, estimate the length of each side of the square to the nearest whole number

Question 900206: If the area of a square is 29 square inches, estimate the length of each side of the square to the nearest whole number
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You are looking for some x, .

x will obviously be between 5 and 6. You say, "nearest whole number". That might not be too accurate.

5^2=25;
6^2=36;
The better choice among the two of those is 5.

Why to the nearest whole number instead of maybe to the nearest tenth?
; , not too bad, and it's better than just 5.
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; , only a little worse than 5.5.
What you might want is some value between 5.25 and 5.5.
You can continue and take a value as near as you want to give approach.
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