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Internal Training Protocol: Squaring Negative Radicals

As a senior technician, you are mentoring a new hire who is reviewing a blueprint containing the expression (−17)2(-\sqrt{17})^2. The new hire is confused and believes the answer should be −17-17 because of the negative sign inside the parentheses. Write a brief instructional response for the technician that states the correct simplified value of (−17)2(-\sqrt{17})^2 and explains the two fundamental mathematical rules they must recall to simplify this expression: the rule for multiplying negative signs and the rule for squaring a square root.

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