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If every positive number has two square roots and you can find the length of the side of a square window by finding a square root of the area, why is there only one answer for the length of a side?

Sagot :

Because when you build things with real wood and tools, negative length has no physical meaning. There are still two square roots, but we ignore the one that's not useful.