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That greatly depends on what level of math you are taking. Early math classes might want you to say, "You can't take the square root of a negative number." Later math will talk about real numbers and still the answer would be, "The square root of -4 does not have a real answer." Still later in your math career you will see imaginary numbers whereby the special character "i" is equivalent the the square root of -1. If imaginary answers are allowed, then the square root of -4 = 2i (since -4 is the same as -1 x 4, the square root of -1 x 4 = i x 2 =2i)

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