{"id":1897,"date":"2020-08-21T19:41:44","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T23:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/introalgebra\/part\/chapter-7-powers-roots-and-scientific-notation\/"},"modified":"2020-08-21T19:41:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T23:41:44","slug":"chapter-7-powers-roots-and-scientific-notation","status":"publish","type":"part","link":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/introalgebra\/part\/chapter-7-powers-roots-and-scientific-notation\/","title":{"raw":"CHAPTER 7 Powers, Roots, and Scientific Notation","rendered":"CHAPTER 7 Powers, Roots, and Scientific Notation"},"content":{"raw":"[latexpage]\n<div id=\"CNX_ElemAlg_Figure_09_00_001\" class=\"splash\">\n<div class=\"bc-figcaption figcaption\">Square roots are used to determine the time it would take for a stone falling from the edge of this cliff to hit the land below.<\/div>\n<span id=\"fs-id1169595309317\" data-type=\"media\" data-alt=\"This figure shows a rock cliff.\"><img src=\"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/accessibilitytoolkit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/333\/2020\/07\/CNX_ElemAlg_Figure_09_00_001_img_new.jpg\" alt=\"This figure shows a rock cliff.\" data-media-type=\"image\/jpeg\"><\/span>\n\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"fs-id1169597818573\">Suppose a stone falls from the edge of a cliff. The number of feet the stone has dropped after \\(t\\) seconds can be found by multiplying 16 times the square of \\(t\\). But to calculate the number of seconds it would take the stone to hit the land below, we need to use a square root. In this chapter, we will introduce and apply the properties of exponents and square roots, and scientific notation.<\/p>","rendered":"<div id=\"CNX_ElemAlg_Figure_09_00_001\" class=\"splash\">\n<div class=\"bc-figcaption figcaption\">Square roots are used to determine the time it would take for a stone falling from the edge of this cliff to hit the land below.<\/div>\n<p><span id=\"fs-id1169595309317\" data-type=\"media\" data-alt=\"This figure shows a rock cliff.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/accessibilitytoolkit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/333\/2020\/07\/CNX_ElemAlg_Figure_09_00_001_img_new.jpg\" alt=\"This figure shows a rock cliff.\" data-media-type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"fs-id1169597818573\">Suppose a stone falls from the edge of a cliff. The number of feet the stone has dropped after <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/introalgebra\/wp-content\/ql-cache\/quicklatex.com-b4e3cbf5d4c5c6d9b702dd139f14c147_l3.png\" class=\"ql-img-inline-formula quicklatex-auto-format\" alt=\"&#116;\" title=\"Rendered by QuickLaTeX.com\" height=\"12\" width=\"6\" style=\"vertical-align: 0px;\" \/> seconds can be found by multiplying 16 times the square of <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/introalgebra\/wp-content\/ql-cache\/quicklatex.com-b4e3cbf5d4c5c6d9b702dd139f14c147_l3.png\" class=\"ql-img-inline-formula quicklatex-auto-format\" alt=\"&#116;\" title=\"Rendered by QuickLaTeX.com\" height=\"12\" width=\"6\" style=\"vertical-align: 0px;\" \/>. But to calculate the number of seconds it would take the stone to hit the land below, we need to use a square root. In this chapter, we will introduce and apply the properties of exponents and square roots, and scientific notation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"menu_order":7,"template":"","meta":{"pb_part_invisible":false,"pb_part_invisible_string":""},"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-1897","part","type-part","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/introalgebra\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/1897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/introalgebra\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/introalgebra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/part"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/introalgebra\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/1897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/introalgebra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/introalgebra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=1897"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/introalgebra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=1897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}