Square Roots and Perfect Squares

Comprehensive quiz on square root calculations, perfect squares, repeated subtraction method, and applications

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Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The value of $\sqrt{\dfrac{64x^{2}}{49y^{2}}}$ is

  1. $\dfrac {8x}{7y}$
  2. $\dfrac {8}{7y}$
  3. $\dfrac {8x^{4}}{7y^{2}}$
  4. $none$
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Find the square root of $7-4 \sqrt{3}$

  1. $2+ \sqrt{3}$
  2. $5- \sqrt{3}$
  3. $2- \sqrt{3}$
  4. $5+\sqrt{3}$
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

$(1\frac{7}{9})^{-1/2} =$

  1. $\frac{4}{3}$
  2. $\frac{3}{4}$
  3. $-\frac{4}{3}$
  4. $-\frac{3}{4}$
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If $\displaystyle \sqrt{1+\frac{25}{144}}=\frac{x}{12}$ then x equals

  1. 1
  2. 11
  3. 13
  4. 7
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Find the square root of $\displaystyle 9\frac { 49 }{ 64 } $.


  1. $\displaystyle 3\frac { 1 }{ 8 } $.
  2. $\displaystyle 4\frac { 3 }{ 8 } $.
  3. $\displaystyle 3\frac { 7 }{ 8 } $.
  4. $\displaystyle 4\frac { 1}{ 8 } $.
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Evaluate: $\displaystyle\sqrt{5 \left(2\frac{3}{4}, -, \frac{3}{10}\right)}$ is $\displaystyle 3\frac{1}{m}$

$m$ is 

  1. $2$
  2. $5$
  3. $4$
  4. $6$
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Evaluate:$\displaystyle\sqrt{(0.5)^3, \times, 6, \times, 3^5}$

  1. $13.5$
  2. $13.6$
  3. $13.7$
  4. $13.8$
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Find the square root of: $\displaystyle27\frac{9}{16}$

  1. $\displaystyle2\frac{1}{4}$
  2. $\displaystyle7\frac{1}{4}$
  3. $\displaystyle3\frac{1}{4}$
  4. $\displaystyle5\frac{1}{4}$
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Evaluate: $\sqrt{\displaystyle \frac{1}{16}, +, \displaystyle \frac{1}{9}}$

  1. $\displaystyle \frac{7}{12}$
  2. $\displaystyle \frac{25}{144}$
  3. $\displaystyle \frac{5}{12}$
  4. None of these
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The square root of $71, \times, 72, \times, 73, \times, 74, +, 1$ is :

  1. 9,375
  2. 9,625
  3. 5,625
  4. 5,255
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The square root of $\displaystyle \frac{441}{961}$ is :

  1. $\displaystyle \frac{21}{39}$
  2. $\displaystyle \frac{37}{21}$
  3. $\displaystyle \frac{21}{31}$
  4. $\displaystyle \frac{11}{13}$
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What smallest number must be added to 269 to make it a perfect square:

  1. 31
  2. 16
  3. 7
  4. 20
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

$\sqrt {\displaystyle \frac{0.289}{0.00121}}, =, ?$

  1. $\displaystyle \frac{1.7}{11}$
  2. $\displaystyle \frac{17}{11}$
  3. $\displaystyle \frac{170}{11}$
  4. $\displaystyle \frac{17}{110}$
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

$\displaystyle \frac{?}{\sqrt{2.25}}, =, 550$

  1. 825
  2. 82.5
  3. 3666.66
  4. 2
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

$\sqrt{4\displaystyle\frac{57}{196}}=?$

  1. $2\displaystyle\frac{1}{14}$
  2. $2\displaystyle\frac{3}{14}$
  3. $2\displaystyle\frac{5}{14}$
  4. $2\displaystyle\frac{9}{14}$
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The value of $\sqrt{0.064}$ is

  1. 0.8
  2. 0.08
  3. 0.008
  4. 0.252
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

$\sqrt{0.0009}, \div, \sqrt{0.01}, =, ?$

  1. 3
  2. 0.3
  3. $\displaystyle \frac{1}{3}$
  4. None of these
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The value of $\sqrt{214+\sqrt{130-\sqrt{88-\sqrt{44+\sqrt{25}}}}}$

  1. $14$
  2. $15$
  3. $16$
  4. $17$
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The value of $\displaystyle \sqrt{1 + 2008 \sqrt{1 + 2009 \sqrt{1 + 2010 \sqrt{1 + 2011.2013}}}}$ is .............

  1. 2009
  2. 2010
  3. 2011
  4. 2013
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Find the square root of the following $\displaystyle\frac{2025}{4900}$

  1. $\displaystyle\frac{55}{80}$
  2. $\displaystyle\frac{55}{70}$
  3. $\displaystyle\frac{45}{80}$
  4. $\displaystyle\frac{45}{70}$
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If it is possible to form a number with the second, the fifth and the eighth digits of the number 31549786, which is the perfect square of a two digit even number, which of the following will be the second digit of that even number?

  1. 1
  2. 4
  3. 6
  4. No such number can be formed
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If $\sqrt{\displaystyle\frac{16}{49}}=\displaystyle\frac{n}{49}$ then $n=$

  1. $4$
  2. $7$
  3. $16$
  4. $28$
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If the sum $S$ of three consecutive even numbers is a perfect square between $200;and;400$, then the square root of $S$ is

  1. $15$
  2. $16$
  3. $18$
  4. $19$
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Find the length of the side of a square whose area is 441 $ \displaystyle m^{2} $.

  1. $19 $ m
  2. $21 $ m
  3. $23 $ m
  4. $29 $ m
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Two square roots of the unity are

  1. $1, -1$
  2. $-1, \omega$
  3. $1, -\omega$
  4. $i, i^2$
Question 26 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Inverse operation of squares is known as:

  1. minimum number
  2. square root
  3. odd number
  4. prime number
Question 27 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

$\sqrt{0.0169 \times ?}= 1.3$

  1. 10
  2. 100
  3. 1000
  4. None of these
Question 28 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Solve of simplify the following problem, using the properties of roots:
$\sqrt { 20a } \times \sqrt { 5a }$, assuming $a$ is positive

  1. $10a$
  2. $12a$
  3. $15a$
  4. $5a$
Question 29 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
State whether true or false:
$\cfrac{\sqrt{12}}{\sqrt{3}}$ is not a rational number as $\sqrt{12}$ and $\sqrt{3}$ are not integers. 
  1. True
  2. False
Question 30 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Value of $\sqrt{10+\sqrt{25+\sqrt{121}}}$ in the following is 

  1. 5
  2. 3
  3. 4
  4. 6
Question 31 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Square root of $400$ is?

  1. $40$
  2. $25$
  3. $20$
  4. $100$
Question 32 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The value  of  $\sqrt {11 - \sqrt{112} }=  $

  1. $2 + \sqrt{7}$
  2. $2 - \sqrt{7}$
  3. $ \sqrt{7} - 2$
  4. none of these
Question 33 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The square root of $289$ is?

  1. $13$
  2. $17$
  3. $27$
  4. $23$
Question 34 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
Simplify the following: 
$\displaystyle \frac{\sqrt{24}}{8}+\frac{\sqrt{54}}{9}$ is equal to $\displaystyle \frac{7\sqrt{6}}{12}$
If true then enter $1$ and if false then enter $0$
  1. $1$
  2. $0$
  3. Cannot be determined, incomplete information
  4. None of the above
Question 35 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
The value of $\cfrac { 10\sqrt { 6.25 }  }{ \sqrt { 6.25} - 0.5 } $ is
  1. $125$
  2. $0.125$
  3. $1.25$
  4. $12.5$
Question 36 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If ${\left( {\dfrac{m}{n}} \right)^{\dfrac{3}{8}}} + {\left( {\dfrac{n}{m}} \right)^{\dfrac{3}{8}}} = 9$ then find the value of ${\left( {\dfrac{m}{n}} \right)^{\dfrac{3}{4}}} + {\left( {\dfrac{n}{m}} \right)^{\dfrac{3}{4}}}$

  1. $79$
  2. $72$
  3. $83$
  4. $84$
Question 37 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The square root of sum of the digits in the square of $121$ is

  1. $4$
  2. $3$
  3. $6$
  4. $9$
Question 38 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Find the square root of $225$ using "Repeated Subtraction".

  1. $11$
  2. $15$
  3. $5$
  4. $8$
Question 39 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Evaluate and state true or false 

$\displaystyle \sqrt{\frac{25}{32}, \times, 2\frac{13}{18}, \times, 0.25}$ is $\displaystyle \frac{35}{48}$

  1. True
  2. False
Question 40 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The square root of $\displaystyle96\frac{1}{25}$ is $\displaystyle9\frac{4}{5}$
State true or false.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 41 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
Find the least number that must be subtracted so that the resulting number is a perfect square.
1886
  1. 27
  2. 47
  3. 37
  4. 85
Question 42 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Evaluate: $\displaystyle\sqrt{\left (5, +, 2\frac{21}{25}\right ), \times, \frac{0.169}{1.6}}$ $\times 100$

  1. $91$
  2. $81$
  3. $21$
  4. $54$
Question 43 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Evaluate and state true or false 

$\displaystyle \sqrt{1\frac{4}{5}\,\times\, 14\frac{21}{44}\, \times\, 2\frac{7}{55}}$ is $\displaystyle7\frac{49}{110}$

  1. True
  2. False
Question 44 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Evaluate: $\sqrt{100}+\sqrt{49}$.

  1. $\sqrt{149}$
  2. $\sqrt{490}$
  3. $\sqrt{10}+\sqrt{14}$
  4. $17$
Question 45 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The square root of $42, \displaystyle \frac{583}{1369}$ is :

  1. $6\, \displaystyle \frac{19}{37}$
  2. $4\, \displaystyle \frac{2}{11}$
  3. $7\, \displaystyle \frac{2}{121}$
  4. None of these
Question 46 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Evaluate $\sqrt{41-\sqrt{21+\sqrt{19-\sqrt{9}}}}$

  1. $3$
  2. $5$
  3. $6$
  4. $6.4$
Question 47 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Evaluate  $\sqrt {\displaystyle \frac { 25 }{ 81 } -\displaystyle\frac { 1 }{ 9 }  } $

  1. $\displaystyle \frac { 16}{ 81 }$
  2. $\displaystyle \frac { 25}{ 81 }$
  3. $\displaystyle \frac { 4}{ 9}$
  4. $\displaystyle \frac { 2}{ 3}$
Question 48 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The sum of the squares of $2$ numbers is $156$. If the one number is $5$, the square of the other number is

  1. $81$
  2. $131$
  3. $11$
  4. $123$
Question 49 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If $\sqrt{49}=7$, then find the value of $\sqrt{49}+\sqrt{0.49}+\sqrt{0.0049}+\sqrt{0.000049}$

  1. 7777
  2. 77.77
  3. 777.7
  4. 7.777
Question 50 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

$\sqrt { \sqrt { 169 } +\sqrt [ 3 ]{ 1728 }  } $ equals

  1. 12
  2. 5
  3. 3
  4. 9
Question 51 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the square root of ${0.000441}$ ?

  1. $0.021$
  2. $0.0021$
  3. $0.21$
  4. $2.1$
Question 52 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If x is a positive integer less than 100, then the number of x which make $\displaystyle \sqrt{1+2+3+4+x}$ an integer is

  1. 6
  2. 7
  3. 8
  4. 9
Question 53 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The least number by which 176 be multiplied to make the result a perfect square, is:

  1. 8
  2. 9
  3. 10
  4. 11
Question 54 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Find the square roots of $100;and;169$ by method of repeated substraction.

  1. $10; 13$
  2. $10; 17$
  3. $20; 13$
  4. $20; 17$
Question 55 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The least number which must be subtracted from 6,156 to make it a perfect square is:

  1. 62
  2. 72
  3. 52
  4. 82
Question 56 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

$\displaystyle {\sqrt{\frac{36.1}{102.4}}}, =, ?$

  1. $\displaystyle \frac{29}{32}$
  2. $\displaystyle \frac{19}{72}$
  3. $\displaystyle \frac{19}{32}$
  4. $\displaystyle \frac{29}{62}$
Question 57 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Find the square root of $100$ by the method of repeated substraction.

  1. $10$.
  2. $11$
  3. $9$
  4. $12$
Question 58 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The value of $\sqrt{1\displaystyle\frac{1}{2}-\begin{bmatrix}1\displaystyle\frac{1}{2}-1\displaystyle\frac{1}{2}+\begin{pmatrix}1\displaystyle\frac{1}{2}-1\displaystyle\frac{1}{2}-1\displaystyle\frac{1}{4}\end{pmatrix}\end{bmatrix}}$ is

  1. $\displaystyle\frac{1}{2}$
  2. $\displaystyle\frac{1}{4}$
  3. $\displaystyle\frac{1}{16}$
  4. $1\displaystyle\frac{1}{5}$
Question 59 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If $\sqrt{1, +, \displaystyle \frac{27}{169}}, =, 1, +, \displaystyle \frac{x}{13}$, then the value of $x$ is

  1. 1
  2. 14
  3. Cannot be determined
  4. None of these
Question 60 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Simplify the expression involving rational exponents:
${ \left( \displaystyle\frac { 25 }{ 64 }  \right)  }^{ { 1 }/{ 2 } }$

  1. $\displaystyle\frac { 25 }{ 8 } $
  2. Not a real number
  3. $\displaystyle\frac { 5 }{ 8 } $
  4. $\displaystyle\frac { 5 }{ 64 } $
Question 61 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If $n = \sqrt {\dfrac {16}{81}}$, what is the value of $\sqrt {n}$?

  1. $\dfrac {1}{9}$
  2. $\dfrac {1}{4}$
  3. $\dfrac {4}{9}$
  4. $\dfrac {2}{3}$
  5. $\dfrac {9}{2}$
Question 62 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Find the square root of decimal 5.76.

  1. $4.2$
  2. $2.4$
  3. $18.4$
  4. $4.23$
Question 63 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The square root of $144$ is 

  1. $114$
  2. $442$
  3. $12$
  4. $24$
Question 64 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Find the square root of $81$.

  1. $9$
  2. $45$
  3. $18$
  4. $81$
Question 65 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Complete the repeated subtraction to find the square root of $225$.

  1. $9$
  2. $45$
  3. $25$
  4. $15$
Question 66 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Simplify the following : $\sqrt { 0.0081 } $

  1. $0.02$
  2. $0.09$
  3. $0.06$
  4. $0.05$
Question 67 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is the value of $\displaystyle \sqrt { \sqrt [ 3 ]{ 0.000064 }  } $ ?

  1. $0.004$
  2. $0.008$
  3. $0.02$
  4. $0.04$
  5. $0.2$
Question 68 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the value of $\sqrt{\frac{400}{25}}$?

  1. 4
  2. 3
  3. 2
  4. 1
Question 69 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Find the value of $\sqrt{\frac{484}{121}}$

  1. 4
  2. 3
  3. 2
  4. 1
Question 70 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Find the square root of 841.

  1. 21
  2. 28
  3. 29
  4. 25
Question 71 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Subtracting which odd number will get the value of 288 for the square root of the number 484 using repeated subtraction method?

  1. 25
  2. 23
  3. 27
  4. 29
Question 72 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

From which odd number you will get the value zero, for the square root of the number 64 using repeated subtracting method?

  1. 13
  2. 15
  3. 9
  4. 5
Question 73 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Calculate the value of $\sqrt{\frac{144}{256}}$.

  1. 0.55
  2. 0.75
  3. 0.65
  4. 0.45
Question 74 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Find the square root of 1369.

  1. 31
  2. 33
  3. 36
  4. 37
Question 75 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Subtracting which odd number will get the value of 144 for the square root of the number 169 using repeated subtraction method?

  1. 3
  2. 5
  3. 7
  4. 9
Question 76 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Evaluate: $\sqrt{\frac{784}{196}}$

  1. 5
  2. 4
  3. 3
  4. 2
Question 77 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If $x=5+2\sqrt { 6 } $, then $\sqrt{ x }+\dfrac{1}{\sqrt { x }} $ is ?

  1. $2\sqrt{ 2 } $
  2. $2\sqrt { 3 } $
  3. $\sqrt { 3 } +\sqrt { 2 } $
  4. $\sqrt { 3 } -\sqrt { 2 } $
Question 78 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If $a,b,c$ are three distinct positive real numbers then the number of real roots of $ax^2+2b|x|-c=0$ is

  1. $0$
  2. $2$
  3. $4$
  4. none of these
Question 79 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A group of people decided to collect as many rupees from each member of the group as is the number of members. If the total collection amounts to $2209$, what is the number of members in the group?

  1. $37$
  2. $47$
  3. $107$
  4. $43$
Question 80 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

For what value of $\displaystyle x+\frac { 1 }{ 4 } \sqrt { x } +{ a }^{ 2 }$ will be perfect square -

  1. $\displaystyle \pm { 1 }/{ 18 }$
  2. $\displaystyle \pm { 1 }/{ 8 }$
  3. $\displaystyle \pm { 1 }/{ 5 }$
  4. $\displaystyle { 1 }/4$
Question 81 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
Solve:
$ \sqrt { 225 } -x=0 ,x=?$
  1. $10$
  2. $4$
  3. $15$
  4. $5$

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