Question

How to simplify radicals?

Answer 1

give me an example!

Answer 2

Yes... can you post a \(\normalsize\color{black}{ \underline{\rm {specific}}}\) question, please ?

Answer 3

(Not using complex solutions though)

Answer 4

\(\LARGE\color{black}{ \frac{8±\sqrt{172}}{3} }\)

\(\LARGE\color{black}{ \frac{8±\sqrt{4\times 43}}{3} }\)

\(\LARGE\color{black}{ \frac{8±2\sqrt{43}}{3} }\) I would leave it like this.

Answer 5

If you had an even denominator, we would cancel things out, but....

Answer 6

But why is it a 2 instead of a 4 after the second step?