document.write( "Question 1089372: I am very confused with how radical equations work...everything about them is confusing to me. I do know what a radical is, what the radicand, index and so forth is. I also know how to extract the square root and basic adding of radicals, but when it comes to equations I'm lost. \n" ); document.write( "
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\"3%2A3=9\"\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"%28what%29%28what%29=9\"\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"sqrt%289%29%2Asqrt%289%29=9\"--------what is square root of 9?\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"sqrt%289%29=3\"\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"x%2Ax=x%5E2=3\"
\n" ); document.write( "Now, what is this number, x?\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"sqrt%283%29sqrt%283%29=3\"
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\n" ); document.write( "\"%28sqrt%283%29%29%5E2=3\"
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