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A small note concerning the approximate values of some roots (as the 2 posters above have noted).

On the GMAT, it is very useful to memorize the following approximations:

√2 ≈ 1.4
√3 ≈ 1.7
√5 ≈ 2.2

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Hi rohan2345,

While the answer choices might look "close" to one another, they're sufficiently 'spaced out' that you really don't need to do much math to answer this question.

To start, you probably know a couple of simple square roots already:

\(\sqrt{1} = 1\)
\(\sqrt{4} = 2\)

So we know that \(\sqrt{2}\) is BETWEEN 1 and 2. This question asks us to subtract 2 from \(\sqrt{2}\), so we're ultimately looking for an answer that is between -1 and 0... There's only one answer that fits...

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