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Example Question #7 : How To Simplify Square Roots
Simplify
.
Example Question #1 : How To Simplify Square Roots
Simplfy the following radical
.
You can rewrite the equation as
.This simplifies to
.Example Question #1 : How To Simplify Square Roots
Which of the following is equal to
?
√75 can be broken down to √25 * √3. Which simplifies to 5√3.
Example Question #2 : How To Simplify Square Roots
Simplify
.
Rewrite what is under the radical in terms of perfect squares:
Therefore,
.Example Question #3 : How To Simplify Square Roots
What is
?
We know that 25 is a factor of 50. The square root of 25 is 5. That leaves
which can not be simplified further.Example Question #4 : How To Simplify Square Roots
Which of the following is equivalent to
?
Multiply by the conjugate and the use the formula for the difference of two squares:
Example Question #5 : How To Simplify Square Roots
Which of the following is the most simplified form of:
First find all of the prime factors of
So
Example Question #6 : How To Simplify Square Roots
What is
equal to?
1. We know that
, which we can separate under the square root:
2. 144 can be taken out since it is a perfect square:
. This leaves us with:
This cannot be simplified any further.
Example Question #1001 : Sat Mathematics
Simplify:
Write out the common square factors of the number inside the square root.
Continue to find the common factors for 60.
Since there are no square factors for
, the answer is in its simplified form. It might not have been easy to see that 16 was a common factor of 240.The answer is:
Example Question #1002 : Sat Mathematics
Simplify:
None of the given answers.
To simplify, we want to find some factors of
where at least one of the factors is a perfect square.In this case,
and are factors of , and is a perfect square.We can simplify by saying:
We could also recognize that two factors of
are and . We could approach this way by saying:
But we wouldn't stop there. That's because
can be further factored:
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