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Relationship Between Squares and Square Roots

Use squaring and square-rooting as inverse operations, moving between n, n^2, and √(n^2) to check answers.

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Two opposite moves

Squaring and square-rooting are inverse operations. Squaring moves from a number to its square; taking a square root moves from the square back to the number.