SOLUTION: how do you find the square root. the equation looks something like this:3+(the square root of -3)......something like that..

Question 244631: how do you find the square root. the equation looks something like this:3+(the square root of -3)......something like that..
Answer by College Student(505) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
1) We know that a square root of a number is the result of another number multiplied by itself.
2) We also know the multiplication of two positive or negative numbers would always result in a positive number.
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Therefore, we can conclude that negative numbers do not have square roots.
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However, in order to deal with problems including square roots of negative numbers,
Rafael Bombelli (back in 1572) invented the imaginary number we know today as "i".
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"i" =
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Suppose your problem would have been ... since we know the square root of 9 is 3, we could've then say ...same as to say...
But in your problem, you may leave it as or expand it to ...or...
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I hope this explanation helped. :)
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