3-8 Squares and Square Roots

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Things to know

Taking the square root of anumber is the inverse(opposite) of squaring thenumber6² = 36 √36 = 6Every positive # has

twosquare roots,

one + and one -.One square root of 16 is 4,since 4 x 4 = 16. The othersquare root of 16 is -4 since (-4)(-4) is also 16.

You can write the square root of 16 as ± 4, meaning positive ornegative 4.

Things to know

When you press the √ on thecalculator it only gives you thenonnegative square root. This iscalled the

Principal square root.

√-49 and -√49 are not thesame. A negative number hasno real square root.A

perfect square

is a numberthat has integers as itssquare roots. They are….

9,16,25,36,49,64

81…

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