GRADE 10: MATHEMATICS – WORKSHEET

UNIT 02 – SQUARE ROOT

Name: ……………………………………………..

First Approximation – Square root of positive integer correct to the first decimal place.

The Division Method – Finding the square root of any positive number.

01. Find the first approximation of the given numbers.

i) √8 ii) √17 iii) √29

iv) √40 v) √65 vi) √93

02. Find the square root of these numbers using the division method.

i) √729 ii) √1089 iii) √2401

iv) √484 v) √3364 vi) √4489

03. Find the square root accurate to the first decimal place.

i) √6 ii) √23 iii) √358

iv) √71 v) √809 vi) √2467

04. Find the square root accurate to the second decimal place.

i) √11.4 ii) √45.61 iii) √60.008

iv) √232.76 v) √1509.1256 vi) √0.0081

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 05. A square shaped tile has an area of 2025 cm2. What is the length of a side of it?

06. A rectangle has a length of 18m and a breath 13m. What is the length of a side of a square having

the same area as the rectangle?

07. There are 256 apples in a basket, they are to be arranged in equal number of rows and columns,

how many apples are in a row?

08. The surface area of a cube is 784 cm2. Find the length of a side of the cube.

09. A rectangular field has been made by placing 20 square shaped grass carpets along 50 rows. If

the area of the flat surface of the grass carpet is 272.25 cm2, what is the length and breadth of

the field?

10. A farmer has a square shaped vegetable garden with an area of 361 m2. He is planning to install

a fence around his farm to keep animals away. What is the total length of this fence?

11. The length and breadth of a rectangular shaped plot of land are 30m and 15m respectively. Find

to the nearest meter, the least distance that a child standing at one corner of the plot should travel

to reach the diagonally opposite corner of the plot.

12. Find the length of the missing side of the given right angled triangles.

i) ii) iii)
56 cm

28 cm 29 cm

65 cm

45 cm
20 cm

13. If the length of the hypotenuse of an isosceles right angled triangle is 15cm, find the length of
the remaining side correct to two decimal places.
14. A number pattern is given as 9, 16, 25, …
i) What is the 10th term of this number pattern?
ii) Which term of the pattern is the number 625?

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