Question

√48x^6=I need help doing this please.

Answer 1

what are the factors of 48?

Answer 2

1,2,3,4,6,8,12,16,24,48

Answer 3

yes, I'm sorry, I meant can you factor it? 2,2,2,2,3 isn't it?

Answer 4

so you have the square root of (2 2 2 2 3 x x x x x x) right?

Answer 5

yes.

Answer 6

\[\sqrt{48x^6}=\sqrt{2^4*3}\sqrt{x^6}=4x^3\sqrt{3}\]

Answer 7

so pull out as many pairs as you can, and see what is left

Answer 8

animal is right, but I think he used magic

Answer 9

so i got two sets of 2s and i set of 3xs. so that is 4(x^3)?

Answer 10

exactly

Answer 11

okay. thank you for your help.

Answer 12

but dont forget what is left over stays under the radical

Answer 13

so the 3 goes under the radical?

Answer 14

can you help me with another one? a cube root?

Answer 15

yep, can't pull it out so it hangs around out there