| Solved by pluggable solver: Simplifying Square Roots (whole numbers only) |
The goal of simplifying expressions with square roots is to factor the radicand into a product of two numbers. One of these two numbers must be a perfect square. When you take the square root of this perfect square, you will get a rational number. So let's list the factors of 50 Factors: 1, 2, 5, 10, 25, 50 Notice how 25 is the largest perfect square, so lets factor 50 into 25*2 So the expression ---------------------------- Check: Notice if we evaluate the square root of 50 with a calculator we get and if we evaluate This shows that |