SOLUTION: How does square root 104 turn into 2 square root 26?

Question 260887: How does square root 104 turn into 2 square root 26?
Found 2 solutions by richwmiller, drk:
Answer by richwmiller(17219) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
sqrt(104)=sqrt(4*26)=sqrt(4)*sqrt(26)=2*sqrt(26)
Answer by drk(1908) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
we start with

now, we need to break it apart into prime factors we get

take out a 2 and we get

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