SOLUTION: What is the 200th term of the increasing sequence of positive integers formed by omitting only the perfect squares?

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Question 203408: What is the 200th term of the increasing sequence of positive integers formed by omitting only the perfect squares?
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14^2 is 196 and 15^2 is 225, so the first 200 positive integers contain 14 perfect squares

adding 14 to replace the missing integers (200 + 14), gives 214 as the 200th term