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He negative square root of 16 is -4. What is the square root of -16?

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About the minus sign with 16, square root of -1 is an imaginary number i(iota). Also we know that square root of -16 will be multiplication of square root of -1 and square root of 16. So the final answer becomes, + or - 4i. Hope this helps

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