Learning Target #4
Understand and solve for (using simplest radical form) the geometric mean
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Simplest Radical Form
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Geometric Mean
­For 2 positive numbers a and b, solve this proportion for x:
a = x
x b
ex: Find the geometric mean of 6 and 12.
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ex: Find the geometric mean of 12 and 15.
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ASSIGNMENT
p. 468 #17­22
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