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The expression is $\"\"$ .

The perfect square less than 79 is 64.

The perfect square greater than 79 is 81.

The compound inequality is $\"\"$ .

$\"\"$ (Identify perfect squares closest to 79)

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

$\"\"$ (Write 64 as $\"\"$ and 81 as $\"\"$ )

81 is closer to 79 than to 64, so the nearest integer, $\"\"$ .

$\"\"$

The nearest integer is 9.