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How do I handle square roots of negative numbers?

 

 Aug 3, 2020
 #1
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Remember     sqrt (-1) = i  ?

 

3 + sqrt (-16)   = 

3 + sqrt (16*(-1) )   =   3 + 4i      

      and   6-sqrt(-64) = 6 - 8i          take it from here ............

 Aug 3, 2020
 #2
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Square roots of negative numbers will have "i"  in them. \(\sqrt{-1}=i\). So the square root of a negative number would be the square root of the number if it were postiive with an i.

 Aug 3, 2020

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