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What are the positive and negative square roots of 1?
The numbers 1 and negative 1 (-1) are both square roots of positive 1.The square root of negative 1 is the "imaginary" number i.
What has both a negative and positive?
An integer has both positive and negative numbers.
Do Positive numbers have negative square roots?
Every positive number has two square roots. Their absolute values are the same. One is positive and the other is negative.
Why does every positive numbers have 2 square roots?
Because multiplying negative numbers together gives a positive answer. So the square root of nine is both three and minus three.
What is four times negative six?
4 x -6 = -24 A good way to remember how to do this is to multiply the two numbers as you would if they were both positive. Then, if only one of the numbers is a negative, the answer will be a negative. If both numbers are a negative, the answer will be a positive.
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