Yes every positive number has two square roots, i.e. 25 gives 5 and -5
but when you are looking at a square window, its lengths are all the same and also the length has to be positive. You cannot have -5 cm. There is no such things as a negative length which is why we take the positive one only. So if the surface area of a square window is 25cm². Then its length is √25 = 5 cm (or -5cm but again you cannot have a negative length, thus you only take the positive one).
Some math problems like this you have to think about if you can have a negative answer. in this case no, but other problems can sometimes have a negative answer.
280 because if you divide 175 by 5 you get 35 which is the amount of miles the van travels in 1 hour and then you multiple 35 by 8 and you have your answer 280
