ShmoopTube
Where Monty Python meets your 10th grade teacher.
Search Thousands of Shmoop Videos
SAT Math Videos 171 videos
SAT Math: Numbers and Operations Drill 1, Problem 2. If the masterpiece will be worth $45,055 in five years, what is its worth now?
SAT Math 1.3 Algebra and Functions. How many 16 oz. bottles did she buy?
SAT Math 10.1 Geometry and Measurement. How many cans of paint are needed?
SAT Math 3.2 Numbers and Operations 1262 Views
Share It!
Description:
SAT Math 3.2 Numbers and Operations
Transcript
- 00:03
Here's your shmoop math du jour:
- 00:05
What is the square root of 5.206 times 10 to the seventh to the nearest hundredth?
- 00:11
Here are your options...
- 00:17
Okay, so we need to figure out the value of the
- 00:19
square root of a number to the closest hundredth.
Full Transcript
- 00:22
Let's repeat the most important part of that... it'll save us a whole lot of work.
- 00:27
TO THE CLOSEST HUNDREDTH.
- 00:29
One more time, with feeling... TO THE CLOSEST HUNDREDTH
- 00:35
Only one of the answers is a number that includes the right number of
- 00:39
numbers after the decimal point... to the hundredths place.
- 00:46
Now, if we can remember what the hundredths place is,
- 00:48
we can answer this question in a snap.
- 00:53
If not, we'll tell you just this once. You're on your own for the test, though.
- 00:57
The hundredTHs place, with the "T-H" sound
- 01:00
at the end, is two spots to the right of the decimal point.
- 01:03
Not three, like its buddy the thousandths place, or one, like the tenths place.
- 01:08
So which of the answer choices has two numbers after the decimal point?
- 01:11
Option D, 7215.26.
- 01:15
Saves us a lot of time punching numbers on our calculator, doesn't it?
Related Videos
SAT Math 2.1 Geometry and Measurement. What is the measure of angle z in terms of x and y?
In 2014, the unemployment rate of one county in California was 7%. In another county, the unemployment rate was 11%. Which of the following express...
Angela is making cookies for a bake sale. She expects each batch of her cookies to sell for $40. It costs her $10 to make one batch of cookies, and...