Ask
your own question, for FREE!
Mathematics
4 Online
OpenStudy (anonymous):
Simplify the expression, please help!!!
Join the QuestionCove community and study together with friends!
Sign Up
OpenStudy (nory):
What expression?
OpenStudy (anonymous):
\[\sqrt{3/4}\ \sqrt{5/2}\]
OpenStudy (anonymous):
times
OpenStudy (nory):
Remember that if you have two radicals multiplied together, you can just combine them into one. So \[\sqrt{x} \times \sqrt {y} = \sqrt{x \times y}\]
OpenStudy (nory):
Now what can you do to the expression?
Join the QuestionCove community and study together with friends!
Sign Up
OpenStudy (anonymous):
\[\sqrt{3/4\times5/2}\]
OpenStudy (nory):
Good! Now you know how to multiply fractions. Go ahead and see what you get.
OpenStudy (anonymous):
1/7/8
OpenStudy (nory):
What's with the double division signs?
OpenStudy (anonymous):
\[1\frac{ 7 }{ 8 }\]
Join the QuestionCove community and study together with friends!
Sign Up
OpenStudy (anonymous):
i got you man. its either:\[\frac{ \sqrt{\frac{ 15 }{ 2 }} }{ 2 }\] or \[1.36931\]
OpenStudy (nory):
Don't forget the radical signs--they haven't disappeared!
OpenStudy (nory):
@hogie
OpenStudy (anonymous):
sqrt(3a^2/10b^6)
OpenStudy (anonymous):
This sucks!
Join the QuestionCove community and study together with friends!
Sign Up
OpenStudy (nory):
Where did the variables come from? Are you still on the same question?
OpenStudy (anonymous):
the variable is in the question
OpenStudy (nory):
What question? A new question? I thought the question was to simplify \[\sqrt{3/4}\times \sqrt{5/2}\] .
OpenStudy (anonymous):
The new question is sqrt(3a^2/10b^6) haha my bad!
OpenStudy (nory):
Okay.
Can't find your answer?
Make a FREE account and ask your own questions, OR help others and earn volunteer hours!
Join our real-time social learning platform and learn together with your friends!