September
25
Math 11 Week 3
To simplify radicals you have to find a number that times itself by the index equals the radicand.
=5
but you can have more complicated radicands where they aren’t a perfect square.
to solve them you break it down by numbers that the radicand is divisible too.
24
12 2
2 6
2 3
2 x 2 x 2 x 3
2
when you have a mixed radical you can turn it back into a radical.
3
3 x 3 x 3 x 3 x 2