To do them it REALLY helps if you remember Perfect Squares.it will make you quicker at doing these problems.
From this page
http://www.gmathacks.com/mental-math/estimating-square-roots.html
I have copied a section below.
For these problems.....
you don't need the exact answer! An approximation is good enough
. Memorize Squares
For all sorts of reasons, you should memorize perfect squares at least up to 12^2 = 144. It helps to know additional round numbers, such as 15^2 = 225 and 25^2 = 625.
Once squares are burned into your memory, estimating square roots is easy. Let's go back to the square root of 39. The nearest perfect squares are 36 and 49, which are squares of 6 and 7, respectively. Thus, the square root of 39 is somewhere between 6 and 7. Since 39 is closer to 36 than to 49, the square root of 39 is closer to 6 than 7.
Sure enough, the square root of 39 is about 6.24. You will never see a problem on the GMAT where you need to know that the square root of 39 is 6.24. But you may well need to know that the square root of 39 is a little bigger than 6.
We all had to learn these at one time.
Give it a go friend :) You won't regret it.later on in life.
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