What is simplified radical form?

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anonymous · Answer

@whpalmer4

anonymous · Answer

It means that you simplify until there are no more square roots or cube roots also it means removing all radicals in a denominator in a fraction

whpalmer4 · Answer

simplified radical form means you've taken out all of the square factors.  for example

sqrt(8) is not in simplified radical form, because it could be written as sqrt(2*2*2) and we could take out a pair of 2s, giving us 2 * sqrt(2)

sqrt(7) is in simplified radical form, because there are no square factors

you should also rationalize the denominator so that it doesn't have any radical signs.

whpalmer4 · Answer

or write it as a radical over the fraction