Question

Any number(variable) squared would be a ____ function.

Answer 1

Given,

Any number(variable) squared would be a-----function.

Solution,

Know that squaring a value positive or negative shall always make that function positive.

Hence, the term in the blank is positive.

Answer 2

Any number squared would be a Square root function. Because square root function is the function at taking any positive number x as input and returns the positive number y as output.  The square of a number is multiplied by itself which means  5 squared as 5×5=25

where 25 is the square value.

For example, the variable or number 2 as input and the squared value is 4 as output.