SOLUTION: SIMPLIFY THE SQUARE ROOT OF 10 -2/THE SQUARE ROOT OF 10 + 3 =

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Question 193955: SIMPLIFY
THE SQUARE ROOT OF 10 -2/THE SQUARE ROOT OF 10 + 3 =

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Simplest form requires taking the radical out of the denominator. Simply squaring the denominator won't do because you would still have a radical term because:



However, multiplying the denominator by its conjugate, namely , works because that results in the difference of two squares, thus:



But you can't just multiply the denominator by something without changing the value of the rational expression. You need to multiply by 1 in the form of , thus:



Apply FOIL to the numerator, and the difference of two squares result to the denominator:




John