Question

What is X squared equal 36 ?

Answer 1

Find x.

$x^{2} =36\\|x|=\sqrt{36}\\|x|=6\\x=6,-6$

Answer 2

36 = X²

To get x by itself, since x is squared, we take the square root of both sides of the equation.

On the right, the square root of x² is x and on the left, since 36 is the perfect square 6 × 6, the square root of 36 is 6. Note: -6 could also be the answer because a negative multiplied by a negative is always a positive.

This means that 6 = X or -6 = x