How do you find the square root of -63?

1 Answer
Jun 5, 2018

3isqrt(7)

Explanation:

sqrt(-63)

first of all this is an imaginary number so we do this sqrt(-1) = i:

=sqrt(63)*sqrt(-1)

=sqrt(63)*i

=sqrt(3*3*7)*i

=sqrt(3^2*7)*i

=3sqrt(7)*i

=3isqrt(7)