Question

Radical Expressions

Answer 1

\[\sqrt{32}=\sqrt{8}\sqrt{4} \] Right?? If yes, then how do i further simplify?

Answer 2

What is the square root of 4? Can you factor 8 also?

Answer 3

square root of 4 is 2.

Answer 4

\[\sqrt{2} \sqrt{4}\] for 8?

Answer 5

yes

Answer 6

i might have been easier to see what the largest "perfect square' is a factor of 32
since \(32=16\times 2\) you could have started with
\[\sqrt{32}=\sqrt{16\times 2}=\sqrt{16}\times \sqrt{2}\]

Answer 7

*it might have been easier

Answer 8

you do not know what the square root of two is (except maybe using a calculator) but you do know the square root of 16