Breakdown into primes factors: Break down into prime factors: Substitute these prime factorizations under the radical: Use parentheses to group all pairs of like factors: (We group by twos since it is a square root; if it were a cube root we would group by threes) The is equivalent to so we take out only a single out in front of the radical: The is equivalent to so we take out only a single out in front of the radical: Edwin