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-The ـــــــــــــــــof a nonnegative number a is written as $\sqrt { a }$.
A) principal square root
B) conjugate
C) index
D) radicand

Question

Fill in the blank with one of the words or phrases listed below.

-The ـــــــــــــــــof a nonnegative number a is written as $\sqrt { a }$.
A) principal square root 
B) conjugate 
C) index 
D) radicand

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The principal square root of a nonnegative number a is denoted as $\sqrt{a}$, which represents the nonnegative square root of a.

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