What does square root mean?

Answer 1

It is the number that is multiplied by itself to get another number.

For example, what number do you multiply by itself to get 25?

The answer is 5, because 5 multiplied by itself is 25.

Another way to say 5 x 5 is 'five squared', written as 52

25 (i.e. the result of 5 x 5) is 'the square' of 5.

And 5 is the root, the 'square root' of 25.

What might be the square root of 9? (3, because 3 x 3 = 9)

So what is the square root of 49 ?

Answer 2

The square root of a number is what multiplied by itself gives you that number For example, the square root of 81 is 9 since 9x9= 81. Another example is 144. The square root of 144 is 12 since 12x12=144.

Answer 3

a number times itself, so the square root of 4 is 16 4x4=16

Answer 4

A number that is squared is a number 49 is 7 because 7 squared is 7x7=49

square root of 1=1 4=2 9=3 and so on.