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Square of Negative Numbers
Last updated at July 29, 2025 by Teachoo
Class 8 (Ganita Prakash & Old NCERT)
Chapter 1 Class 8 - A Square and a Cube (Ganita Prakash)
- Introduction
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Square Numbers
- Perfect Squares - and its Properties
- Perfect Squares - and its Patterns
- Square Root
- Smallest number multiply or divide to get perfect square
- Estimating Square Root
- Figure it out - Page 10, 11
- Cubic Numbers
- Perfect Cubes - and its Properties
- Perfect Cubes - and its Patterns
- Cube Root
- Smallest number multiply or divide to get perfect cube
- A pinch of History
- Figure it out - Page 16, 17
Transcript
Square of Negative Numbers Find (–12) 2 (–12)2 = –12 × –12 = 12 × 12 = 122 Thus, (–12)2 = 122 Thus , we can say that Square of a negative number is always positive
