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Question: Simplifying Square Root
- Posted By: Tesch
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Simplifying Square Root
How would you explain how to simply two sqaure roots over each other, example would be Square root of 6 over Sqaure Root of 2. Please help me. Thanks.
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- Posted By: juke
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The rule you need to know here is as follows:
sqrt(6)/sqrt(2) is the same as sqrt(6/2) from this you can simplify the inside of the square root to be sqrt(3) which is in its simplest form.
Another example would be sqrt(8)/sqrt(2):
sqrt(8/2) = sqrt(4) = 2
Let me know if this helps.