A worker was counting the number of cotton candy and ice cream bars he sold during the first inning. He sold 48 more ice cream bars than cotton candy. If he sold 176 items altogether, how many did he sell of each kind?

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answer: it depends on what the tax percentage

answer: 4  

the square root of 16 is 4. it is a very simple mathematic concept. a square root when a number multiplied by itself will result in a number. here, the number 16 comes when 4 is multiplied by 4. hence the square root of 16 is 4. you can always figure out a square root by the inverse operation of squaring.