Can You Square Root A Negative Math
I times the square root of 4 or the principal square root of 4 times the principal square root of 13.
Can you square root a negative math. Here are a couple of easy rules to begin with. That s because the square root of any. That s all well and good for positive numbers but when we take the square root sometimes called principal square root of a negative number we get chaos. Simplifying the square root of a negative number is very similar to simplifying the square root of a positive number.
The principal square root of negative 1 is i. Technically there is not a square root for negative numbers so you can multiply the square number. And then we re going to multiply that times the square root of 4 times 13. The other square root of negative 1 is negative i.
But you knew that right. You just need to remember i in your answer. And this is going to be equal to i times the square root of 4. In this video i find the square root of negative numbers.