How can I find the square root of a number using factor trees?

1 Answer
Apr 25, 2015

Starting with the number
create branches to factors
then factor each branch until none of the branches
have factors (other than themselves and #1#)

The terminal branches become the "leaves" of your "factor tree"

Group them in pairs of equal valued leaves as in the image below:
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The square root of the original number is the product of the paired values.
In the image above this would be:
#color(red)(3xx5xx2 =30)#