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This can be taken as a trick question.

The principal square root of 36 is 6.

-6 times -6 is 36, so the negative square root of 36 is -6.

So depending on the context of the question, 36 either has one square root, or two.

Mathworld.com has a better explanation at

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SquareRoot.html

I will not try to duplicate it here because of the use of math symbols.

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