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Square Roots and Cube Roots

Finding a square root of a number is the opposite of Finding the cube root of a number is the opposite of
squaring the number. The symbol is used to show cubing the number. The 3 symbol is used to show
square roots. cube roots.
For example, a square root of 16 is 4. For example, the cube root of 125 is 5.

16 = 4 since 42 = 16 3
125 = 5 since 53 = 125

Find each square root.

1. 4 = ________ 2. 25 = ________ 3. 49 = ________

4. 1 = ________ 5. 9 = ________ 6. 64 = ________

7. 36 = ________ 8. 144 = ________ 9. 169 = ________

10. 121 = ________ 11. 400 = ________ 12. 225 = ________

Find each cube root.

13. 3
8 = ________ 14. 3
1 = ________ 15. 3
27 = ________

16. 3
512 = ________ 17. 3
343 = ________ 18. 3
1,728 = ________

19. 3
1,331 = ________ 20. 3
729 = ________ 21. 3
1,000 = ________

Challenge yourself! Answer each question.

22. What number has a 23. What number has a 24. What is the square root of
square root of 10? cube root of 6? the square root of 81?

________ ________ ________

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