Lesson 4
1. Lesson 4
1.5. Explore
Module 5: Radicals
Explore
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When there has been an accident, police investigators photograph and measure the length of skid marks to help determine what happened. They use equations containing radicals in their calculations to find the speed of the vehicles involved.

Here are some of the words you will want to define in Module 5 Glossary Terms in this lesson:
- extraneous roots
- radical equations