Break 63 into primes as
Break 252 into primes as
Now since the index of a square root is 2,
use parentheses to group like factors into pairs:
Each pair of like factors is a square and comes
out in front of the radical as just a single
factor:
Those are like terms, so add 3+6 and get
Edwin
how do you do the square root sign on the computer?
You type three open braces " { " in a row. I can't
type three of those here because the program would
just print it again as
.
Then you type immediately after that:
sqrt(63)+ sqrt(252)
and immediately follow that by three close braces:
" }}} "
Edwin