document.write( "Question 174680: how do you simplify 8/2+ the square root of 6? \n" ); document.write( "

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how do you simplify 8/2+ the square root of 6?
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\n" ); document.write( "\"Simplify\" usually means getting radicals out of the denominator.
\n" ); document.write( " $\"8%2F%282%2Bsqrt%286%29%29\"$
\n" ); document.write( "The \"trick\" to doing these is to multiply NUM and DEN by the conjugate of the DEN.
\n" ); document.write( "= $\"8%2A%282-sqrt%286%29%29%2F%28%282%2Bsqrt%286%29%29%2A%282-sqrt%286%29%29%29\"$
\n" ); document.write( "= $\"%2816-8sqrt%286%29%29%2F%284-6%29\"$
\n" ); document.write( "= $\"-8+%2B+4sqrt%286%29\"$
\n" ); document.write( "It's slightly simpler, but not much. \n" ); document.write( "

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