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Grade 12th PassAlgebra

While calculating square roots of some functions,why do we usually ignore the negative values?For example while I was solving a question of quadratic equations,the value of a function f(x)=(x4+20)1/2 came out to be 6 and -7.When I saw the solution, it had stated that f(x) will not be -7.Why?

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8 Years agoGrade 12th Pass
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Profile image of poonam
8 Years ago
-7 is not considered as the function you have is a square root and square root cant give negative values so -7 is neglected