Sis, can you help me learn how to apply radicals and square roots to problem? I need to learn about them for my project
Lily got home from school and started her homework for Algebra 1. Her little sister,Catherine, walked up to her, who seemed very upset at the moment.
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Sure, but It’s complicated, you need to know what a square root is first.
Okay, then explain it!
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A square root is a number that, when multiplied by itself, equals another number. This is often expressed by using a radical symbol
√16 = 4 because 4 x 4 = 16√36 = 6 because 6 x 6 = 36√49 = 7 because 7 x 7 = 49√81= 9 because 9 x 9= 81
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Simplifying Radicals Using Prime Factorization
√20√2x2x52√5√8√2x2x22√2√48√2x2x2x2x34√3
Step 1: break down the square root into 2 factors and keep factorizing until you reach a prime numberStep 2: if there are pairs of the same prime numbers, put them outside the square root and put the rest in the square root, if there is more than 1 pair or radical multiply them with each other
In order to simplify a square root, you have to use prime factorization, which requires the factors of that number