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by GRV99 » Sat Sep 17, 2011 12:24 pm
value of 4√496 (read 4 as power to square root sign,sorry i don't know how to write it) is between
(A) 3 and 4
(B) 4 and 5
(C) 5 and 6
(D) 6 and 7
(E) 7 and 8
[spoiler]OA:B[/spoiler]
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by shankar.ashwin » Sat Sep 17, 2011 12:29 pm
There are many ways to approach this problem, but if you familiar with numbers,

you probably know, 5^4 = 25^2 = 625 and

4^4 = 16^2 = 256.

So its clearly between 4 and 5

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by GRV99 » Sun Sep 18, 2011 12:19 am
thanx rising star....i didn't think it that way..sumtimes core logic is better than core math.