SOLUTION: How do you add and subtract square roots when the square roots are not the same number?

SOLUTION: How do you add and subtract square roots when the square roots are not the same number?

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Question 381510: How do you add and subtract square roots when the square roots are not the same number?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You see if you can reduce them to have the same root.
Example:

If not then you can make them have the same root by multiplying numerator and denominator by the same number.

But, as you see, the answer isn't always any simpler.

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