SOLUTION: When you are dividing a fraction within a fraction and you use the recipricol to mulitply, for this question it is (5/7)/(2√6/7) how would you multiply the square root?

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Question 701927: When you are dividing a fraction within a fraction and you use the recipricol to mulitply, for this question it is (5/7)/(2√6/7) how would you multiply the square root?
Answer by stanbon(75887) About Me  (Show Source):
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When you are dividing a fraction within a fraction and you use the recipricol to multiply, for this question it is (5/7)/(2√6/7) how would you multiply the square root?
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If the 6/7 fraction is in the radical it equalt sqrt(42)/7.
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Your Problem:
(5/7)/(2sqrt(42)/7)
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Inverting the denominator results in canceling the common 7's.
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You get: = 5/(2sqrt(42))
Simplifying that you get:
= (5sqrt(42)/2*42)
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= (5sqrt(42)/84
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= (5/84)sqrt(42)
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Cheers,
Stan H.