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OpenStudy (anonymous):

Ok I attached the radical I need to simplify.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

There's nothing attached

OpenStudy (anonymous):

where is your radicals?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

@mathmale

OpenStudy (solomonzelman):

Guys who wants to play? Please don't cheat with online calc, just logic..... Is \(\normalsize\color{black}{8i}\) a perfect square ?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

no

OpenStudy (solomonzelman):

I can see this answer, because ti is imaginary, but is it a product of 2 same numbers ?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

i guess no

OpenStudy (solomonzelman):

How about \(\normalsize\color{black}{8i=4(1±i)}\) ?

OpenStudy (solomonzelman):

I mean \(\normalsize\color{black}{8i=4(1±i)^2}\)

OpenStudy (solomonzelman):

\(\normalsize\color{black}{\sqrt{8i}=\sqrt{4(2i)}=2\sqrt{(2i)}=2(1±i)}\)

OpenStudy (solomonzelman):

Check backwards. (1-i)²=1²-2i+(i²)=1-2i-1=-2i (1+i)²=1²+2i+(i²)=1+2i-1=2i

OpenStudy (solomonzelman):

Should be just 1+i

OpenStudy (solomonzelman):

nvm

OpenStudy (anonymous):

i guess thats why they call them COMPLEX numbers ;) but i didnt get how you took the (2i) from the root when you solved root(8i)

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