SOLUTION: Simplify completely, keep answer in radical form. sqrt(24x^8y^3)/sqrt(75x^-7y^17)

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Question 1192820: Simplify completely, keep answer in radical form.
sqrt(24x^8y^3)/sqrt(75x^-7y^17)

Found 2 solutions by ankor@dixie-net.com, greenestamps:
Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Expand to show the perfect squares, reciprocal gets rid of the neg exponent

Extract the squares

Combine like terms


Answer by greenestamps(13195)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!


There are several different paths you can take to simplify this expression. I would definitely go a different direction that the other tutor. And according to usual standards, my simplified form should not have a radical in the denominator.

(1) Change the fraction containing square roots in numerator and denominator into a single square root of a fraction:



(2) Simplify the fraction:



(3) Extract perfect squares where possible:




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