By Team Aakash Byju's

Here’s the Easiest Way to Find Out the Square Root of 5

Square Root of 5=2.2360….

Square Root of  Square root is found in 2 ways:

Prime factorization method

 Can be done for perfect square root numbers

Long Division method

GCF of 5 and 30

5 = 5 30 = 2 x 3 x 5 GFC = 5

5      5         1

2      30 3      45 5      5         1

Can be done for all the numbers

Since 5 is not a perfect square number, calculating the value of √5 is not possible .Hence we need to use a long division method.

Write 5 as 5.000000000 i.e. 5. 00 00 00 00

Step 1

Now check for the largest number whose square is ≥ 5. ie 4 is perfect square of 2 and is the largest square number less or equal to 5

Step 2

Calculate the remainder and carry down two zero>Here the number formed is 100 .Let us consider this as x

Step 3

Step 4

Now add 2 in division to make it 4. Take a number next to 4, such that when we multiply the combination with the same number, we get a number ≥ 100.

So when we multiply 42 by 2, we get 84, which is less than 100. Subtract it with 100 now to get the remainder as 16.

Step 5

Repeat steps 2, 3, 4 till the remainder is 0 or is repetitive.

Step 6

Quotient will be the square root