SOLUTION: How do you simplfy 5/(sqrt(6)+ 2)?

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Question 245012: How do you simplfy 5/(sqrt(6)+ 2)?
Answer by ptaylor(2198) About Me  (Show Source):
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OK. The idea here is to clear the radical in the denominator. We can do this by multiplyinig the numerator and denominator by (sqrt(6)-2)---and we get
{5(sqrt(6)-2)}/{sqrt(6)+2)(sqrt(6)-2)} and this reduces to:
{5(sqrt(6)-2)}/{6-4) further simplifying, we have:
{5sqrt(6)-10}/2 or (5/2)sqrt(6)-5

Hope this helps--ptaylor