SOLUTION: Please help me with this geometry word problem with square roots. Find the area of the rectangle with this measurements: Top side of the rectangle is: sqrt3 + sqrt5 right side

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To solve this we first need to invoke the formula for the area of a rectangle.
area = length * width
or
area = a*b
We know that one side is , and the same goes for the other side. Hence we get:

and

Now all we need to do is to multiply a together with b, including the WHOLE expression and setting it in parentheses.
As we may see here:

Continuing, we need to multiply each element in the first parenthesis with all the elements in the second. We then get:

I hope this clarified things for you.
Best regards,
Eric