What is the square root of - 9 in simplest form

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Cody Shaw

Mathematics

4 September, 00:20

What is the square root of - 9 in simplest form

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Marcelo Daugherty · Answer 1

It is 3i.

The square root of - 9 is the square root of - 1 times the square root of 9.

So: the square root of 9 is 3, and the square root of - 1 is called i (this doesn't actually exist, it's just imaginary).

Then, the square root of - 9 is 3i.