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Why can’t we take the square root of a negative number?Provide Example.

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because its irrational if you have a negative sqaure root you would have to turn it positive by turning it to a fraction or if it's already in a fraction the you have to switch the side it's on and you could change the negative if it's a whole number that you should make it a fraction by putting a 1 under it

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Zero has one square root which is 0. Negative numbers don't have real square roots since a square is either positive or 0.

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