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The expression is $\"\"$ .

The perfect square less than 27 is 25.

The perfect square greater than 27 is 36.

The compound inequality is $\"\"$ .

$\"\"$ (Identify perfect squares closest to 27)

$\"\"$ (Take positive square root of each side)

$\"\"$ (Write 25 as $\"\"$ and 36 as $\"\"$ )

25 is closer to 27 than to 36, so the nearest integer, $\"\"$ .

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The nearest integer is 5.