Saturday, June 03, 2023

figure it out

You can probably do this one in your head:

My answer will be in the comments.



1 comment:

Kevin Kim said...

So what you have is this:

√[(1/25)÷(1/25)÷(1/25)÷(1/25)÷(1/25)]

Dividing by a fraction is the same as multiplying by its reciprocal, so you can flip every "1/25" except the first, then you replace the division symbol with a multiplication symbol. Now you have:

√[(1/25)•25•25•25•25]

The first two terms cancel out and become 1, so you're left with this:

√(25^3), or √(25•25•25)

This reduces to

25√25, and as we know, √25 = 5, so

25•5 = 125.

QED.