How do you find the square root of 1/4?

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Answer 1 · 2018-03-09T05:11:40

$1/2$

We have:

$sqrt(1/4)$

Using a simple observation, we got:

$=sqrt((1^2)/(2^2))$

Using the properties, $(a^b)/(c^b)=(a/c)^b$ .

So, we got

$=sqrt((1/2)^2)$

$=+-1/2$

Since we are talking about real numbers, we will only take the principal (positive) square root, and so the answer will be just $1/2$ .