GED® Math: Typical Non-Calc Perfect Square Problem (0.3, Exp, #54)

Unit 0, Lesson 3, Experienced Level Practice #54

A huge majority of GED® students get this style of problem, which can show up in the non-calculator section of the GED® math test, wrong because they go with their gut without taking the time to check their answer.

Here Kate checks the most common student guess, explains the error in logic, then uses her knowledge of perfect squares to simplify one of the expressions in order to solve this equation accurately.

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[koiyo]

im still not understanding :/ ill come back to rewatch it later a few more times, but that means the question isnt asking what the square root of 16 is? im still not getting what its asking 😔 thank you for these videos though, i tried getsummath because everyone mentions him but everything he said just completely flew by me, your videos are the only thing getting me through this 🙏