Compare and contrast perfect squares and imperfect squares. explain your reasoning by talking about square roots and the process of finding perfect square roots and imperfect square roots.

perfect squares are the squares of the whole numbers: 1, 4, 9,25,36,49,64,81,100 For example, 9 is a squared number because it can be written as 3x3. However, imperfect squares are numbers whose square roots contain fractions or decimals. For example square root of 20 = 4 1/2