document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=474633>Question 474633</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> How do you simplify 3 times the square root of 3 over 9 </SPAN>\n" );
document.write( "</I><HR><TABLE width=100%><TR><TD><B><A HREF=http://www.algebra.com/>Algebra.Com's</A> Answer #325502 by </B><A HREF=/tutors/aboutme.mpl?userid=tinbar><B>tinbar(133)</B></A><img src=\"/images/stars/stars-09.gif\" alt=\"\" >&nbsp;<A HREF=/tutors/aboutme.mpl?userid=tinbar><IMG SRC=http://www.algebra.com/images/aboutme-small.gif BORDER=0 alt=\"About Me\" VALIGN=MIDDLE></A>&nbsp;<IMG SRC=http://www.algebra.com/images/nopicture.jpg><BR>You can <A HREF=\"/cgi-bin/embed-solution.mpl?show=1&solution=325502\">put this solution on YOUR website!</A><BR><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> first ignore the root3 part, just consider the 3/9, what does that simplify to?\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "...1/3, now factoring in the root3 part, we have the total answer as (1*root(3))/3 which is the same as root3/3. How do we simplify this now? Well, consider the bottom number, 3. Can we express 3 as something else to help us simplify this? Yes we can. 3 is the same as root3*root3, this is infact the definition of square roots. \r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "So now we our root3/3 is the same as root3/(root3*root3). We can cancel one root3 from the bottom with the root3 on top, leaving us with 1/root3, which is as simple as we can make this </SPAN>\n" );
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