Question

Find the square root  the following correct to three places of decimal. 

`5/12` 

Answer 1

We can find the square root up to four decimal places by expanding 5/12 to decimal form up to eight digits to the right of the decimal point as shown below: 

`5/2=0.41666666` 

Hence, we have:

So, the square root of 5/12 up to three decimal places is 0.645.