SOLUTION: We are suppose to express this in simplest radical form. 3square root of 2 plus square of 50. Please help!

Question 87806This question is from textbook algebra structure and method
: We are suppose to express this in simplest radical form.
3square root of 2 plus square of 50.
Please help! This question is from textbook algebra structure and method

Answer by bucky(2189) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
I suspect that you meant to say the square root of 50 instead of the square of 50. So you
meant for the problem to be:
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Note that 50 is 25*2. So you can substitute 25*2 for 50 and the problem becomes:
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By the rules of square roots you can split into
to convert the problem to:
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But the square root of 25 is 5 and substituting 5 for the square root of 25 changes the
problem to:
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Then you can factor out the square root of 2 to make the problem:
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and replace 3+5 by 8 makes it:
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and we conventionally write this as:
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Hope this helps you to understand the problem and some of the steps you can take to simplify
radicals.
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If you really meant the problem to be:
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then please post the problem again because that is a whole different problem from the
one I worked above.

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