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What is the Square Root of 64?

Answer – The square root of 64 is 8.

Explanation:

When a number is squared, it is multiplied by itself. For instance, the square of 10, or 10 squared (102) is, 

10×10=100.

The square root function is the inverse. To find out the square root of a number, one has to find out the number that when multiplied by itself gives the original number as the answer. Square root is represented by the radical sign().

Therefore, n2=n

A perfect square is a number whose square root is a whole number. 64 is a perfect square. Its square root can be found using the prime factorization method.

From this,

64=2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2

The 2s can be divided into pairs.

64=(2 × 2) × (2 × 2) × (2 × 2)

      =2 2 × 2 2 × 2 2

    =(2 × 2 × 2) 2

      =8 2

Thus, 64=8

Square roots can be positive or negative integers, while the squares are always positive. Here, for instance, the square root of 64 can be either 8 or -8. However, commonly, the root is assumed to be the positive integer.


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