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https://www.khanacademy.org/math/pre-algebra/factors-multiples/divisibility_tests/v/divisibility-tests-for-2-3-4-5-6-9-10 0:09
The Square Roots Practice I can finish in about 10 seconds but I'm really hitting a wall with the Simplification side of Square Roots. Please help me!
but what if you had √12? It isn't a perfect square but it can still be simplified by finding any perfect squares within it and removing them. To see if we have any perfect squares we can do a prime factorization of 12. 12 = 2*2*3 Since we have a perfect square within the 12 we can say √12 = √4*3
so √12 = 2√3 (The 3 is prime and can't be reduced and the 2 used to be under the radical as √4).
Let's take √6 now. Prime factorization is √2*3 (We can't remove a perfect square so √6 is already in simplest form.
Let's take √24 now. Prime factorization is √2*2*2*3 (We have two 2's so we have a perfect square.) We can simplify this to √4*6 or 2√6
So to simplify a square root use prime factorization to find any perfect squares that you can remove from the total under the radical. 2:24 0:25 0:36
https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/simplify-square-roots.html
sqrt(35/9) = sqrt(35)/sqrt(9)
in other words, the square root of the entire fraction is the same as the square root of the numerator divided by the square root of the denominator. With that in mind, we can simplify the fraction:
sqrt(35)/3
As you can see, I left the numerator under the square root, because I can't simplify it, but the square root of 9 is three so I could replace the sqrt(9) in the denominator by 3.
The same rule applies to exponents: e.g. (2/3)^2=(2^2)/(3^2)
