Week 4 – Math 11 – Simplifying Radicals

To find the simplest form of $(/5+2)_{2}$ we follow these steps…

First, $(/5+2)$ $(/5+2)$ make two of the expressions because it was squared.

then we will start by multiplying each number by the other
$/5 * 2 = 2/5$
$/5 * /5 = /25$

$2 * /5 = 2/5$
$2 * 2 = 4$

once done all this combine like factors

$/25 + 4/5 + 4$

then we will get rid of any hole numbers

$4/5 + 5 + 4$

and we will end up with…

$4/5 + 9$

PS. I don’t know the code for the square root symbol so I just used (/) as a replacement.

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