document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=49533>Question 49533</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> Okay guys I think I got this but want to check with someone of \"authority\".\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Simplify the following equations as much as possible:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "10 + sqrt(16 - 9) / (4 / 2)^3<BR>\n" );
document.write( "= (10 + &#8730;7) / 8<BR>\n" );
document.write( "= 12.65 / 8<BR>\n" );
document.write( "= 1.58\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Thanks!!<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Andrea<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "</I><HR><TABLE width=100%><TR><TD><B><A HREF=http://www.algebra.com/>Algebra.Com's</A> Answer #32887 by </B><A HREF=/tutors/aboutme.mpl?userid=longjonsilver><B>longjonsilver(2297)</B></A><img src=\"/images/stars/stars-13.gif\" alt=\"\" >&nbsp;<A HREF=/tutors/aboutme.mpl?userid=longjonsilver><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/cgi-bin/show-face.mpl?user=longjonsilver><BR>You can <A HREF=\"/cgi-bin/embed-solution.mpl?show=1&solution=32887\">put this solution on YOUR website!</A><BR><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> you don't have brackets around 10 + sqrt(16 - 9) so i do not know if the denominator of 8 is under everything, as you wrote or just the radical part... that is for you to clarify to yourself.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "If it is everything, then <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=/cgi-bin/plot-formula.mpl?expression=+%2810%2Bsqrt%287%29%29%2F8+ ALIGN=MIDDLE  ALT=\"+%2810%2Bsqrt%287%29%29%2F8+\"   DISABLED_style= \"max-width:90%; height:auto;\" > is correct. Do not evaluate it...the question asks you to simplify NOT evaluate. Your answer is incorrect in that it is a rounded up version of a never ending decimal. That is why we write radicals... they are the EXACT number.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "What we could do is:<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "but this is questionably NOT simpler than <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=/cgi-bin/plot-formula.mpl?expression=+%2810%2Bsqrt%287%29%29%2F8+ ALIGN=MIDDLE  ALT=\"+%2810%2Bsqrt%287%29%29%2F8+\"   DISABLED_style= \"max-width:90%; height:auto;\" >... so leave it alone as <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=/cgi-bin/plot-formula.mpl?expression=+%2810%2Bsqrt%287%29%29%2F8+ ALIGN=MIDDLE  ALT=\"+%2810%2Bsqrt%287%29%29%2F8+\"   DISABLED_style= \"max-width:90%; height:auto;\" > as your answer.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "jon.<BR>\n" );
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