SOLUTION: does this sign ^ mean sqaure root??

Question 23230: does this sign ^ mean sqaure root??
Answer by rapaljer(4671) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
This is the "carat" symbol, which means raised to the power. It's actually the opposite of square root. If you wanted to square 5, you would write
5^2 or which would be 25. However, if you wanted to start with 25 and go back to 5, you would take the square root of 25, which is , and the answer would be 5.

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