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The thing to do is to begin by looking at 50 and trying to find some factor or factors
that are squares. In this case 25 is a factor of 50 that has a "nice" square root of 5.
The comments after the <---- show you the way to simplify the problem step by step and the
answer to this problem is
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This converts the problem to
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You had the right idea here. Your last step almost got the correct answer. Your last
step should have been:
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and this is the correct answer.
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Hope this gives you a little more insight to the problem. You seem to have the basic idea
of solving problems such as these and just needed a couple of minor suggestions to get you
back on track. Keep up the good work.
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