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What would you write for the answer of the square root of -49, because negatives don't really have square roots?[

tex]\sqrt-49[/tex]

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Answer:

7i

Explanation:

negative numbers have no real square roots. However there are "imaginary numbers which can be used as the sqrt of negative numbers

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