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Algebra Level 1

505 0 2 495 0 2 = ? \large \sqrt{5050^2-4950^2} = \ ?


The answer is 1000.

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29 solutions

Chew-Seong Cheong
Jan 10, 2015

505 0 2 495 0 2 = ( 5050 + 4950 ) ( 5050 4950 ) \sqrt{5050^2-4950^2}=\sqrt {(5050+4950)(5050-4950) }

= ( 10000 ) ( 100 ) = 1000000 = 1000 =\sqrt {(10000)(100)}=\sqrt{1000000}=\boxed{1000}

Nice solution... I'm kicing myself for not thinking of that :P

James Cardus - 5 years, 10 months ago

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Me as well.. Hahaha

Matthew Magsano - 5 years, 1 month ago

There's a pattern for finding the difference between two squares. Add the bases together and multiply by their difference. In this case the sum (10000) × the difference (100). It works for finding the difference of any two squares. In this case the problem then had you take the square root of that result, but it saves time and math...

Ric Armstrong - 5 years, 6 months ago

Thank you. Very clear solution.

Karen Barnacle - 6 years, 4 months ago

Thanks, same here! :D

Claudio Augusto Rolim - 5 years, 11 months ago

Best solution is yours. Check mine 5000=a ; 50 =b (a+b)2 - (a-b)2 = 4ab \|4ab = 2\|5000*50 = 1000

Caesar Mezher - 5 years, 6 months ago

Cool answer!!!

Mohith S - 5 years, 2 months ago

Thank You...easy understanding

Sri Vallabha Sharma - 6 years ago

Thank you for this solution. Now I have understood

Sonal Singh - 6 years, 4 months ago

good solution

Saaket Sharma - 6 years, 3 months ago

Thanks, clever idea using difference of 2 squares.

Alex James - 5 years, 11 months ago

That made my day better.

Ian Optional - 5 years, 2 months ago

it's it math in nine grade in VietNam :v

Vũ An - 6 years, 4 months ago

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Same here in India...Or even in class 7 probably

Saaket Sharma - 6 years, 3 months ago

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You are right

Apoorva Raj Bhadani - 5 years, 11 months ago

@Vũ An u people have that much IQ !! I guess it should have been far more developed than INDIA !! which is not

Rajdeep Adhikary - 5 years, 10 months ago

Write a comment or ask a question... wrong

Allan Coloma - 5 years, 10 months ago
Roy Tu
Jan 11, 2015

505 0 2 495 0 2 = ( 5000 + 50 ) 2 ( 5000 50 ) 2 = 2 ( 5000 ) ( 50 ) + 2 ( 5000 ) ( 50 ) = 4 ( 5000 ) ( 50 ) = 4 ( 500 ) ( 500 ) = 2 ( 500 ) = 1000 \sqrt{5050^2-4950^2} = \sqrt{(5000+50)^2-(5000-50)^2} \\ =\sqrt{2(5000)(50)+2(5000)(50)} \\ =\sqrt{4(5000)(50)} \\ =\sqrt{4(500)(500)} \\ =2(500)=\boxed{1000}

In your first step,there should be -ve sign between the brackets.

Ahmer Ahmed - 6 years, 5 months ago

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Yes, you are correct! My bad, I've fixed it. Thank you!

Roy Tu - 6 years, 5 months ago

How did you get to your second line? Where did your square signs disappear to? Where did your minus sign vanish to?

David Lincenberg - 6 years, 5 months ago

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I made a typo: first step should've been a minus in the middle. Thanks Ahmer for catching it. The intuition is that with anything in the form ( a + b ) 2 ( a b ) 2 (a+b)^2-(a-b)^2 only the middle terms 2 a b 2ab survive, and ( a + b ) 2 ( a b ) 2 = 2 a b + 2 a b = 4 a b (a+b)^2-(a-b)^2=2ab+2ab=4ab .

Roy Tu - 6 years, 5 months ago

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Thank you, I now understand how you get to 4ab. It works, however, it is exhausting. How you see the world and from different angles is what makes us better and smarter.

David Lincenberg - 6 years, 5 months ago

yes u r right !! the minus sign vanishes to nowhere

Pritam Patro - 6 years, 5 months ago

Can some one tell me what is wrong with my approach. let a = 5000, and b = 50

Sqrt( (a+b)^2 - (a-b)^2) Step 1) = Sqrt(a+b)^2 - Sqrt(a-b)^2. Step 2) = (a+b) - (a-b) Step 3) = 2b = 100

Ravi Rengasamy - 5 years, 8 months ago

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Ravi, square roots can not be split between sums or differences. Mathematically, Sqrt(4^2 -3^2) is sqrt (16-9) = sqrt (7) NOT THE SAME AS sqrt (4^2) - sqrt (3^2)=4-3=1.

William Clukey - 5 years, 6 months ago
Raiyun Razeen
Jan 11, 2015

505 0 2 495 0 2 \sqrt{5050^2-4950^2}

= ( 5050 + 4950 ) ( 5050 4950 ) =\sqrt{(5050+4950)(5050-4950)}

= ( 10000 ) ( 100 ) =\sqrt{(10000)(100)}

= 1000000 =\sqrt{1000000}

= 1000 =\boxed{1000}

i think this is the easiest and most simpliest way of solving that problem .

Arjhey Baylon - 6 years, 4 months ago

most apt method i believe!

Samuel Poddar - 6 years, 4 months ago

Great solution

Faith Seymour - 4 years, 10 months ago
Arka Fnou
May 22, 2016

505 0 2 495 0 2 = ( 5000 + 50 ) 2 ( 5000 50 ) 2 = 2 × 5000 × 50 ( 2 × 5000 × 50 ) = 4 × 50 0 2 = 2 × 500 = 1000 \sqrt{5050^2 - 4950^2} = \sqrt{(5000+50)^2 - (5000-50)^2} = \sqrt{2 \times 5000 \times 50 - ( - 2 \times 5000 \times 50 ) } = \sqrt{4 \times 500^2} = 2 \times 500 = \boxed{1000}

Nice solution, Arka. Good use of algebraic identities to simplify the given expression.

Pranshu Gaba - 5 years ago
Alex James
Jul 10, 2015

sqrt(5050^2-4950^2) Sub x=5050

=sqrt(x^2-(x-100)^2)

=sqrt(x^2-x^2-10000+200x)

=sqrt(200x-10000)
sub x=5050 back into eq

=sqrt(200*5050-10000) =1000

Roman Frago
Jan 12, 2015

10x100=1000

Peter Sanders
Jul 18, 2015

Since I can be fairly certain that the answer is in the set of whole numbers, I employed the factorization rule for differences of perfect squares:

a 2 b 2 = ( a + b ) × ( a b ) a^2 - b^2 = ( a + b ) \times ( a - b )

a + b = 10 , 000 a + b = 10,000

a b = 100 a - b = 100

Now the problem is just 1 , 000 , 000 = 1 , 000 \sqrt{1,000,000} = 1,000

Manaswi Sathe
Jan 31, 2015

5050 X 5050 = 25502500
4950 X 4950 = 24502500
25502500 - 24502500 = 1000000
Square Root of 1000000 = 1000
Better don't do it manually but use the calculator



Try using exponentiation. 1,000,000 = 10^{6}. Now to take the square root of 10^{6}. A square root is a number or equation raised to the 1/2 power. The exponents may be multiplied, 6 \times 0.5 = 3. We now have 10^{3}, which = 1,000. Use your brain, not your calculator. A different way of looking at the world. Sorry, about the formatting. I tried, but it seems exhausting at this time.

David Lincenberg - 6 years, 4 months ago

Part of the purpose of this type of exercise is realizing the kinds of problems we can do manually. You get to the answer by completing the operations and resolving it that way, but the shortcuts (x^2-y^2)=(x+y)(x-y) are much more elegant.

Brian Egedy - 5 years, 5 months ago
Shameer Deen
Sep 11, 2016

505 0 2 495 0 2 = ( 5050 4950 ) 2 \sqrt{5050^2-4950^2} = \sqrt{(5050-4950)^2} = ( 5050 + 4950 ) ( 5050 4950 ) =\sqrt{(5050+4950)(5050-4950)} = ( 10000 ) ( 100 ) \sqrt{(10000)(100)} = ( 100 ) ( 10 ) (100)(10) = 1000 1000

Chayne Morley
May 13, 2016

I came up on my own system. √[(5050-4950)x2 x 5000] essentially double the difference and multiply the average.

Loris Margescu
Mar 3, 2016

You can also consider 5050 as 4950+100 so (4950+100)^2 - 4950^2 =

4950^2+10.000+200*4950 - 4950^2=10.000+990000= 1.000.000

Sqrt (1.000.000)=1.000

Aysha Lohan
Mar 1, 2016

l e t x = 5050 , a n d h e n c e 4950 = x 100 let x = 5050, and hence 4950 = x - 100

x 2 ( x 100 ) 2 x^2 - (x - 100)^2

= x 2 ( x 100 ) ( x 100 ) = x^2 - (x - 100)(x - 100)

= x 2 ( x 2 200 x + 10000 ) = x^2 - (x^2 - 200x +10000)

= 200 x 10000 = 200x - 10000

200 ( 5050 ) 10000 200(5050) - 10000

= 1010000 10000 = 1010000 - 10000

= 1000000 = 1000000

1000000 √1000000 = 1000 = 1000

Filip Leszczynski
Jan 14, 2016

505 0 2 495 0 2 \sqrt{5050^{2} - 4950^{2}}

5050 = 4950 + 100 5050 = 4950 + 100

4950 + 100 2 495 0 2 \sqrt{{4950 + 100}^{2} - 4950^{2}}

495 0 2 + 2 4950 + 10 0 2 495 0 2 \sqrt{4950^{2} + 2 \cdot 4950 + 100^{2} - 4950^{2}}

990000 + 10000 \sqrt{990000 + 10000}

1000000 = 1000 \sqrt{1000000 = \boxed{1000}}

I did it making a=5000, so ((a+50)^2)-((a-50)^2) and so on...

Alex Jin
Aug 31, 2015

i forget everything from 8th grade i could've solved that in 3 seconds before this summer

J Preethi Cheenu
Aug 24, 2015

use (a^2 - b^2)= (a+b)(a-b)

Asok Kumar
Aug 23, 2015

a2-b2=(a+b)(a-b)

Krishna Garg
Aug 17, 2015

We can express 5050 as a and 4050 as b,so we get underroot (a+b) ( a-b) substituting values we get underroot 1000000 that is 1000 Ans

Grace Bismark
Aug 1, 2015

√(5050)^2-(4950)^2 = 1000 √(a2-b2) =√ (a+b)(a-b) √(10000)(100) =1000

Iwan Kusumo
Jul 17, 2015

Example : a=5050 ; b=4950 ; [(a×a)–(b×b)]^½=[(a+b)×(a–b)]^½ ; [(5050+4950)×(5050–4950]^½=[10000×100]^½=[1000000]^½=1000.

Jason Ekonomakos
Jun 26, 2015

= a^{2} - b^{2} = (a-b)(a+b), where a = 5050 and b = 4950.

Substituting gives us = (5050-4950)(5050+4950) = (100)(10000)

Now place the square root = sqrt{(100)(10000)} = 1000

Mine is the same as the previous one.

Akhil Anand
Jan 29, 2015

using the relation (A+B)*(A-B)=A^2- B^2

Anna Anant
Jan 24, 2015

(5050+4950)x(5050-4950) 10000x100 = 1000000. root(1000000)=1000

Ahmed Morsy
Jan 17, 2015

(5050+495x(5050-4950) 10000x100 = 1000000. root(1000000)=1000

Caeo Tan
Jan 17, 2015

sqrt(5050^2-4950^2)=sqrt[5050^2-(5050-100)^2] =sqrt(5050^2-5050^2+200(5050)-100^2) =sqrt[(100)(2(5050)-100))] =sqrt[100(10000)]=1000

Md Moniruzzaman
Jan 13, 2015

root(a^2+b^2) →root((a+b)(a-b)) let, a=5050 and b=4950. so, ans: 1000.

Domingo Jr. Ramos
Jan 12, 2015

5050^{2} - 4950^{2} = \sqrt{1000000} 1000 answer

Adlain Beaudain
Jan 11, 2015

1) Multiply ( 5050×5050)=25502500 (4950×4950)=24502500)

2) subtracts (25502500-24502500) 1000000

3) square root : √1000000= 1000

While your methodology is sound, with the given set of numbers, it is easier and elegant to use the top method with factoring. a^2 - b^2 = (a-b)(a+b). Reduces the numbers to a 1 with 0s. I may multiply and divide these all days in my head. Your way, I need pen and paper or a calculator.

David Lincenberg - 6 years, 5 months ago

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