ok, so I'm super dumb, when you have a negitive in a square root thingy, what do you do? I keep getting the wrong answers and my teacher won't help me. please help.
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isnt that when you use the 'i' thing?
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you cant have the square root of a negative.
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Negative square roots are impossible. You say: No solution. :D
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well either a. you take out i (for imaginary number) which makes the number inside positive and continue from there or b. you dont have an answer....impossible/ N/A would probably be the best options there
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you have to change the equation around so that the negative is outside of the square root, and you have to do this other shittt too
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there's no solution if you're only using real numbers
if you're using imaginary numbers then it uses i
ex.
square root of -4 = 2i
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you make it i root w/e the number that was negetive
for istance if it was root -16 i would be i X root 16
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Negative square roots are impossible. You say: No solution. :D
not if you take out i but yeah your answer is right if youre not using imaginary numbers
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ok...if you have like [-4 u take out the negative by making it i[4........so you just take the negative away but multiply it by and "i".....so i[4 = 2i
since the square root of 4 is two
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there's no solution if you're only using real numbers
if you're using imaginary numbers then it uses i
ex.
square root of -4 = 2i
ya this yo.
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thanks guys! I'll try some of the things you suggested!
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no solution
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go to a math helping website
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Negative square roots are impossible. 
