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Q. What is the negative square root of ?____
- Understand square roots: Understand the concept of square roots. The square root of a number is a value that, when multiplied by itself, gives the original number. There are always two square roots for any positive real number: a positive and a negative square root. For the number , we need to find the negative square root.
- Calculate positive square root: Calculate the positive square root of . To find the square root of , we look for a number that, when multiplied by itself, equals . We know that: So, the positive square root of is .
- Determine negative square root: Determine the negative square root of . Since we are looking for the negative square root, we take the negative value of the positive square root we found in Step . Therefore, the negative square root of is .
