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3. Why is it true that finding a square root is the inverse of squaring?

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The square root function is the inverse of the squaring function just as subtraction is the inverse of addition. ... The square root could be positive or negative because multiplying two negative numbers gives a positive number. The principal square root is the nonnegative number that when multiplied by itself equals a.

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squaring is mutiplying the same number together
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