Is the square root of a number always smaller than the number itself?

Question

example: the square root of 4 is 2 and 2 is less than 4

Answer 1

Numbers between -1 and 1 will have squares smaller than themselves.

This is because you are multiplying the given number by a number less than 1, which makes it smaller

Answer 2

Not necessarily.  Choose a decimal.  The square root of, for example, 0.25 is .5, where .5 is larger than .25.

Answer 3

No. The square root of a number less than one is larger! The square root of .8 is .8944.