SOLUTION: Hope you can help. I am working on finding the equation of the regression line and making predictions. But I have gotten stuck on an algerbra part. How do you turn the negative squ

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Question 142379: Hope you can help. I am working on finding the equation of the regression line and making predictions. But I have gotten stuck on an algerbra part. How do you turn the negative square root to a postive? here is the problem
-440916/sqaure root of -4567268

Answer by stanbon(75887)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The square root of ANY negative number is imaginary, that is the
square root is not a Real Number.
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Cheers,
Stan H.

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