Showing posts with label Radicals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Radicals. Show all posts

Thursday, May 9, 2013

simplify. All variables represent nonnegative numbers. √128



We rewrite the radicand in factored form, then put all perfect squares under one radical and everything else under the other. Finally...we simplify:





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Sunday, March 31, 2013

Adding or Subtracting Radical Expressions


We start by factoring 32 and 72 the rewriting in a way that helps us determine if the radicals are like terms. After we know they are like terms and we've simplified each term we can combine them (add their rational parts and keep sqrt(2) as it is)