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Which of the following results from taking the square root of a negative number?

Which of the following results from taking the square root of a negative number?-example-1
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Result of taking the square root of a negative number:


\begin{gathered} √(-a)=√(a)*√(-1) \\ \\ √(-1)=i \\ \\ √(-a)=√(a)i \end{gathered}As you can see above the result of taking the square root of a negative number is a imaginary number.Answer: B
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