SOLUTION: -3√3-√12

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Question 294596: -3√3-√12
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First leave alone for now. The goal in this problem is to get the numbers under the radican to be the same. can be broken down into . 4 is a perfect square, the square root of 4 is 2. The 2 comes out of the radican and the 3 under the radican stays there because 3 is not a perfect square. The is now . Now we have the problem . Since the numbers under the radican are the same we can subtract and keep , . The answer is: .

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