The expression is .
The perfect square less than 103 is 100.
\The perfect square greater than 103 is 121.
\The compound inequality is .
(Identify perfect squares closest to 79)
(Take positive square root of each side)
(Write 100 as
and 121 as
)
100 is closer to 103 than to 121, so the nearest integer, .
The nearest integer is 10.