Since square roots are never negative we must in the
end be sure that our answer cannot be negative. But
first:
Multiply what's under the radicals.
Simplify
The largest perfect square that will divide
into 50 is 25, so write as
We can take out the square root of 25 as 5
in front of the radical:
The index of a square root is understood
to be 2, like this:
And we divide the exponents of x and y by
the index 2, getting 2 and 5. Since there
is no remainder, we will have no x's or
y's left under the radical, but only the 2.
Now we have just one more thing to take
care of. Since we know that the answer
cannot be negative, we look at the factors:
The is never negative.
The is never negative
The is never negative.
However the just might be negative,
because if were a negative number,
then would also be a negative
number. So we must put absolute value
bars around the to keep it from causing
the expression to be negative, so the
final answer is
Edwin