SOLUTION: How do you simplify Radicals like (2-radical3)(2+radical3)

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Question 390928: How do you simplify Radicals like (2-radical3)(2+radical3)
Answer by jsmallt9(3758)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

You can use FOIL to multiply this. But you can also use tha pattern, , with "a" being 2 and "b" being . Using the pattern we get:

which simplifies as follows:
4 - 3
1

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