Squaring Numbers

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What is the square of 5?

The square of 5 is 25.

How do you calculate the square of a number?

To calculate the square of a number, multiply the number by itself.

What is the square of 10?

The square of 10 is 100.

Is the square of a negative number positive or negative?

The square of a negative number is positive.

What is the square of 12?

The square of 12 is 144.

What term describes a number that is the product of an integer multiplied by itself?

Perfect square.

What is the square of 15?

The square of 15 is 225.

What is the square of 1?

The square of 1 is 1.

What is the square of 0?

The square of 0 is 0.

What mathematical symbol denotes squaring a number?

The exponent 2, written as a small number to the upper-right of a number (e.g., x²).

What is the square of 8?

The square of 8 is 64.

If x squared equals 64, what is x?

x could be 8 or -8.

What is the simplified form of the square of x + y?

The simplified form is x² + 2xy + y².

What is the term for reversing squaring in mathematics?

Taking the square root.

What is the square of 20?

The square of 20 is 400.




Test Your Knowledge

Select the correct option


1. What is the square of 5?

64

25

30

15

2. How do you calculate the square of a number?

Multiply the number by itself.

Add the number to itself.

Subtract the number from itself.

Divide the number by itself.

3. What is the square of 10?

1000

100

10

50

4. Is the square of a negative number positive or negative?

Positive

Negative

Neither

Depends on the number

5. What is the square of 12?

36

100

144

90

6. What term describes a number that is the product of an integer multiplied by itself?

Composite number

Perfect square

Prime number

Whole number

7. What is the square of 15?

200

115

225

50

8. What is the square of 1?

0

2

5

1

9. What is the square of 0?

1

-1

0

10

10. What mathematical symbol denotes squaring a number?

Exponent 2, or x².

Plus symbol, or +.

Less than symbol, or <.

X symbol, or x.

11. What is the square of 8?

48

88

64

28

12. If x squared equals 64, what is x?

x can be 8 or -8.

x is 64.

x is 4.

x is 32.

13. What is the simplified form of the square of x + y?

x + y

x² + y²

x² + 2xy + y².

2xy

14. What is the term for reversing squaring in mathematics?

Taking the square root.

Taking the cube root.

Subtracting.

Dividing.

15. What is the square of 20?

200

400

40

250