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Explaining Radical Reductions in Inventory Records
You are working as an assistant trainer at a local distribution center. A new colleague is reviewing an inventory audit spreadsheet that contains mathematical expressions for stock reductions. They encounter the expression and are confused about how to simplify it, specifically wondering if the negative sign means they need to find the square root of a negative number.
Write an instructional explanation to help this colleague. In your explanation, you must recall and address the following:
- Explain the role of the negative sign positioned in front of the radical, specifically clarifying whether it is part of the radicand or if it indicates taking the opposite of the computed square root.
- State the value of the radicand.
- Identify the principal square root of that radicand (explaining why using the relationship ).
- Show the step-by-step simplification of the expression to arrive at the final simplified value of -12.
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